"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie onJanuary 29, 1951 with Bobby Driscoll reprising his film role.
John Howard Davies, who had starred with Robert Newton in Oliver Twist, was sought to play Jim Hawkins.
A bumboat is a small boat, used in ports to transfer supplies to ships at anchor.
Billy Bones tells Jim not to 'peach' on him. 'Peach' is a shortening of 'appeach' meaning 'to inform on'.
Bobby Driscoll only had a 3 month work permit in England so all his scenes were filmed first, a long way out of continuity, in order to complete his role in time.
Disney's first live action movie. Walt Disney started the project when postwar restrictions stopped him from transferring profits from his cartoons out of Great Britain. Rather than set up a new animation studio, he used the profits and existing facilities to produce a conventional film.
Filmed in England, not in the West Indies.
Long John Silver claimed to have served with Hawke. Hawke was a naval officer best remembered for his victory over the French fleet at the Battle of Quiberon Bay in 1759.
One of the first Disney movies to be shown on television, this was first telecast in January 1955, as part of the Disneyland television program. It was the first Disney live-action film to be shown complete on television, in two one-hour installments shown a week apart, rather than having the entire film on a single evening. It was broadcast again in the 1960s, in the same format, after the series had changed its name to "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" and the show had moved to NBC.
One of the first films to be re-released to theaters after being shown on television.
The featured performance of Robert Newton as Long John Silver is so iconic that it is thought by many to be the origin of today's stereotypical "Arrrrr"-laced pirate patois.
The name 'Long John' refers to cannibalism. This is reinforced when Ben Gunn mentions that Long John Silver will treat him like 'pork' if he finds him.
There are no women in the entire movie.
There have been eight ships named Portland in the Royal navy. Silver is most likely referring to the third one, a 50-gun fourth rate launched in 1744.