L'isola del tesoro (1987)

Country of Origin: Italy / France / West Germany
Dates of Original Broadcast: 1987
Number of Seasons: 1
Total Number of Episodes: 3
Average Episode Running Times: 120 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: TF1 / Bavaria Filmkunst / RAI-TV Channel 2
Producers: Giovanni Leto, Letizia Palma
Production Managers: Massimo Rocchi, Renzo Cioni
General Organiser: Alessandro Altieri
Production Supervisor (Morocco): Paolo Bistolfi

SCRIPT
Script: Renato Castellani, Lucio De Caro
Novel: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Idea: Renato Castellini

DIRECTION
Director: Anthony M. Dawson (rn: Antonio Margheriti)
Assistant Directors: Almuth Brandes, Piero Cristofani

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Sandro Messina
Camera Operators: Francesco Rossetti, Mario Sbrenna
Labs: Cinecitta

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editors: Tullio Cordanti, Vincenzo Tommassi
Assistant Editors: Adriana Ioghi, Aide Zuffi, Pina La Rosa, Gilda Napoli, Alma Smilovic, Marisa Volonnino
Post Production: Gene Luotto, Filmatix Rome

MUSIC
Music: Gianfranco Plenizio
Music Performed By: RAI Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Gianfranco Plenizio
Song: Pioyer - Plenizio (Beyond the Skies)
Song Performed By: Irene Oliver
Music Mixer: Pietro Vendittelli
Music Supervisor: Paolo Ghirlinzoni

SOUND
Boom Man: Luciano Fiorentini
Sound Engineer: Renzo D'Alfonso
Sound Mixer: Romano Checcacci
International Soundtrack: Cinemontaggio, G. Ystar. Movie

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Roberto Centanni, Roberto Innocenzi, Alessandro Cardella, Laura Chieco
Hair: Lamberto Deli, Emma Camia, Annalisa Coppa
Costumes: Enrico Sabbatini
Seamstresses: Angela Ippoliti, Gabriella Felici, Bruna Rufini

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Edoardo Margheriti
Special Effects Technician: Tonino Corridori
Mock Ups and Models: Emilio Ruiz
Graphic Computer: Vittorio Venezia
Computerised Data Elaborated By: IBM
Titles / Opticals: Penta Studio
Art Director: Francesco Bronzi

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Paul Costello
Production Organisers: Luca Ritondo, Natalino Vicario
Assistant to Director: Gabrielle Cipollitti
Production Assistants: Baghisio Meloni, Umberto Tommasi, Alfredo Di Santo
Head Stuntmen: Aldo Dell'Acqua, Nazareno Zamperla

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks To: Ellettronica Veneta, Motta di Livenza, Aeropotti di Roma, United States Information Service, NASA

STUNTS
Stunts: Alberto Dell'Acqua, Nazzareno Zamperla

CAST
Anthony Quinn (Long John Silver)
Itaco Nardulli (Jimmy)
Philippe Leroy (Squire Jonathan Trelawney)
David Warbeck (Dr Livesey)
Klaus Lowitsch (Captain Smallett)
Ida di Benedetto (Jimmy's mother)
Renato De Carmine
Giovanni Lombardo Radice (Mr Hans)
Andy Luotto (Ben Gunn)
Enzo Cerusico
Ernest Borgnine (Billy Bones)
Biagio Pelligra
Bobby Rhodes (Black Dog)
Bruno Zanin, Sal Borgese, Al Yamanouchi (mutineers)
Stanko Molnar (Joyce the android)
Francesco Casale
Biagio Pelligra (Pew)
Daniela Merlo (hostess)
Robert Spafford (Arrow - uncredited)

The Treasure Island island story retold as space-opera.

Terrible and wholly forgettable junk that labours long and hard to force-fit Stevenson's classic tale into a futuristic setting. The results are crude, forced and obvious with little to recommend it.

AVAILABILITY

UK
Video Distributor: IVS (IVSV 1091)

USA
Video Distributor: Video Search of Miami

UK
Rating: 15? PG?

Treasure Island
Space Island - UK title
Treasure Island in Outer Space

MAGAZINES

Broadcast 16 April 1987 p.70 (UK)
review

L'Ecran Fantastique 75 p.71
review

Foreign Sales, Italian Movie Trade vol.12 no.8/9 (October / November 1986) p.12 (Italy)
credits

Foreign Sales, Italian Movie Trade vol.12 no.10/11 (October / November 1986) p.49 (Italy)
review

Starburst no.147 (November 1990) p.43 (UK)
review

Variety 16 December 1987 p.59 (USA)
credits, review

Video Business 7 December 1987
review

Video the Magazine March 1988 p.19
review

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

space travel, spacecraft, pirates, androids, treasure

Last Updated: 26 August, 2009