After the Treasure Island adventure, Long John Silver turns up on a British Caribbean island Read More »
Tag Archives: Robert Newton
Temptation Harbour (1947) Lance Comfort, Robert Newton, Simone Simon, William Hartnell
A signalman on a quay sees a fight between two men. One of the men is deliberately pushed into the water Read More »
The Desert Rats (1953) Robert Wise, Richard Burton, James Mason, Robert Newton
Rommel has the British in retreat on his way to the Suez Canal. All that stands in his way is Tobruk Read More »
Poison Pen (1939) Paul L. Stein, Flora Robson, Robert Newton, Ann Todd
A small, sedate British village is shocked when its residents begin receiving hate-filled diatribes, known as “poison pen letters”. Read More »
Waterfront (1950) Michael Anderson, Robert Newton, Kathleen Harrison, Avis Scott
A good-for-nothing sailor walks out on his young family leaving them to fend for themselves in the Liverpool slums. Read More »
Hatter’s Castle (1942) Lance Comfort, Robert Newton, Deborah Kerr, James Mason
James Brodie (Robert Newton) is the only hatter in a small area in Scotland. Read More »
Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952) Raoul Walsh, Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix
In 1674, “reformed” pirate Sir Henry Morgan is a high official in Jamaica, but Edward Maynard hopes to win a large reward by proving Morgan still dabbles in piracy. Read More »
Tom Browns Schooldays (1951) Gordon Parry, John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, James Hayter
A faithful rendition of the Thomas Hughes book of life at the famed Rugby School for Boys in 1834, when Dr. Thomas Arnold Read More »
Henry V (1944) Laurence Olivier, Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, Biography, Drama, History
In the motivated Olivier notion, Shakespeare’s drama begins as a function at the Globe Theatre Read More »
Treasure Island (1950) Byron Haskin, Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Adventure, Family
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Read More »
They Flew Alone / Wings and the Woman (1942) Herbert Wilcox, Anna Neagle, Robert Newton, Edward Chapman, Drama
The story of flyer Amy Johnson who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Read More »
Oliver Twist (1948) David Lean, Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Adventure, Crime, Drama
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist (John Howard Davies) dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble (Francis L. Sullivan), for a second serving of gruel, he’s hired out as an apprentice. Read More »
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948) Norman Foster, Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, Robert Newton, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Bill Saunders, disturbed ex-soldier, kills a man in a postwar London pub brawl. Read More »
Obsession / The Hidden Room (1949) Edward Dmytryk, Robert Newton, Sally Gray, Phil Brown, Crime, Thriller, Film-Noir
London psychiatrist Clive Riordan, royally fed up with the repeated affairs of his wife Storm, plots a seemingly ‘perfect’ revenge against her latest lover, American Bill Kronin. Read More »
Vessel of Wrath / The Beachcomber (1938) Erich Pommer, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Newton, Drama, Adventure
Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson (Charles Laughton) a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones,(Elsa Lanchester) a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. Read More »