Treasure Island (Paramount+)
Four stars
The reason anybody pretending to be a pirate usually sounds like a warm-up act for The Wurzels is because Robert Newton, who played Long John Silver in the 1950 film of Treasure Island, came from Cornwall.
He became the definitive Silver, which is quite an achievement because nobody sounds evil and threatening in a West Country accent. Imagine Darth Vader with actor David Prowse’s original Bristolian and you’ll see what I mean.
Silver is played in Paramount’s version of Treasure Island by the highly reliable David Oyelowo, who looks and behaves as if he’s spent three years on a
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