Ahoy there, ye scurvy lubbers!

[Steve H]

It be International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Shiver me timbers! Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

[Gordon]

It be International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Shiver me timbers! Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

Then I shall attempt to channel the spirit of Robert Newton: for my money the best Long John Silver ever (tradition requires that I add "Jim lad").

[Harrowby Hall]

Then I shall attempt to channel the spirit of Robert Newton: for my money the best Long John Silver ever (tradition requires that I add "Jim lad").

How many others can you name?

[Gordon]

How many others can you name?

Tbh I can only think of Charlton Heston.

[Nearly Sane]

Tbh I can only think of Charlton Heston.

Alfred Burke, Tim Curry, Orson Welles

[Gordon]

Alfred Burke, Tim Curry, Orson Welles

I remember now, Tim Curry was in the Muppets film I think. Didn't know about the other two.

 

[Steve H]

Hugh Bonneville played a 17th-Century pirate captain in a 2011 episode of Dr Who, with Matt Smith's Doctor, and Karen Gillan and Arthur Darville, The Curse of the Black Spot, though he didn't do the "Avast there, matey!" accent.

[Nearly Sane]

Hugh Bonneville played a 17th-Century pirate captain in a 2011 episode of Dr Who, with Matt Smith's Doctor, and Karen Gillan and Arthur Darville, The Curse of the Black Spot, though he didn't do the "Avast there, matey!" accent.

I think HH was specifically talking about Long John Silvers.

[Harrowby Hall]

I think HH was specifically talking about Long John Silvers.

Yes, indeed. I know that I could do a search myself, but Gordon's statement made me wonder just how many other screen versions of Treasure Island exist, and how much competition Robert Newton would actually face. I don't actually of any other version than the Disney film, which appeared sometime in the 1950s.

[Steve H]

I think HH was specifically talking about Long John Silvers.

Yes, I know he was. I just mentioned HB as an aside.

[Robbie]

Oh, better far to live and die
Under the brave black flag I fly,
Than play a sanctimonious part
With a pirate head and a pirate heart.

The Pirate King from the Pirates of Penzance

[Enki]

Reminds me of when I was about 10 years old. The ship, Hispaniola, from the film, 'Treasure Island' was moored as a tourist attraction in Scarborough Harbour. I still have an old photograph of me on its top deck. I loved 'Treasure Island' and later my mates and I had a gang, called the Black Spot gang, I believe the Hispaniola was later used in the film, 'Moby Dick' so it's possible that Gregory Peck walked the same planks as I did. If only he had known, he'd have been well impressed!

[ippy]

I've just had to consult Proff Google to get the name Robert Shaw, it wouldn't matter what film I see him in I could only think of him as 'Captain Dan Tempest'.

I'm certain that if I see him in another one of his films sometime I still won't be able to say his name without looking it up somewhere, probably Proff G, good job I can remember Proff G.

Arr Jim Lad!