Location filming took place at Palos Verdes. In September 1953 a deal was signed where the film would be distributed by UA under the Edward Small banner.[2]
Reception
According to Tan Hunter, the film "prompted Dawn Addams to immediately marry Prince Don Vittorio Massimo and move to Italy. It prompted Dupont to never make another movie. His decision or not, I don't know. For my part, whatever strides I’d made as an actor were lost in the stink of this fiasco. Even my mother weighed in with a brutally frank assessment: “You were lousy,’ she pronounced, bolting from the theater lobby."[3]
Variety said the film "shapes up favorably for its intended market. For despite an implausible pulp fiction story, Return to Treasure Island does better than par the coursfe in sex, gunplay, chicanery and aquatic scenery."[4]
See also
Long John Silver, a 1954 American-Australian film directed by Byron Haskin starring Robert Newton as Long John Silver
