Treasure Island

Based on the novel by R. L. Stevenson.
Treasure Island
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item number:  Q5C4
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 24 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 30, 2001
  • Originally Released: 1999
  • Label: Image Entertainment

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Product Description:

This original film--in no way inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's novel--follows two top secret government employees in 1945 Northern California. Their latest job is to trick the Japanese by dumping a falsely identified body into the Pacific Ocean. As they continue to pursue their bizarre sexual fetishes, the body of the man frequently enters their lives. Is he dead, or is this all just a quirky fable' Scott King's film is a visual treat, one that raises questions instead of providing concrete answers.

Description by Image Entertainment:

The closing days of WWII. Treasure Island is a secret naval institution in San Francisco where intelligence experts censor all mail--seeking out hidden messages coded into birthday cards and love letters. Two such cryptographers, Frank and Sam, concoct a plan to outfit a dead body with falsified letters, to be dumped into the ocean as a wartime decoy--his letters containing coded misinformation to mislead the enemy. This much, at least, is true. But in "Treasure Island," communication is a zero-sum game: for every truth revealed, some other knowledge is taken away. The more one knows, the less one understands. All Day Entertainment is proud to present this critically-lauded, audacious motion picture in this deluxe special edition DVD, prepared by filmmaker Scott King himself. 1999 Winner of the Sundance Jury prize!

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  • UPC: 014381026634
  • Shipping Weight: 0.65/lbs (approx)
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