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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0786936785937
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Running Time: 107 minutes
Sales Rank: 13655
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1976
Editorial Review:
Album Description:
At last...the best of Sunday night TV is back! It's the legendary TV show popular with audiences for 29 years. The longest-running prime-time series in television history (1954-1983). The winner of numerous awards, including seven Emmys. It's THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY! In post-Civil War Kentucky, young David Burnie (Johnny Doran) becomes the unexpected heir to the family secret: a map leading to buried treasure on the Florida isle of Matecumbe. The youth, joined by four fellow adventurers (Robert Foxworth, Joan Hackett, Peter Ustinov, Billy Attmore), begins his search for the treasure despite deadly interference by his late father's archenemy (Vic Morrow). The angry threat of a hurricane and the presence of hostile Indians set the mood for the frantic trek to the swampy site -- a destination that could provide untold wealth for the searchers ... or for their evil pursuers!
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A Real Treasure
"Treasure of Matecumbe" is one of my favorite childhood movies, and rewatching it recently has been a treat. I saved up my points from the Disney Movie Rewards club to get it, but I'm glad that it's available now.
To quote another review, the DVD presentation is NOT cut; though the back claims a 107 minute run-time, it runs approximately 117 minutes (1:57). It is disappointing that the presentation is fullscreen (1.33:1 aspect ratio) when it undoubtedly was filmed in widescreen, and ... Read More
Rating:  - Skip It, Read the Book If You Can Find It.
I had always wanted to see this movie as it was based on one of my favorite books, the historical novel "A Journey to Matecumbe" by Robert Lewis Taylor, who also wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "The Travels of Jamie McPheeters." The book is a wonderful exciting and funny tale of a post-Civil War journey by a young boy and his uncle from Kentucky to the Florida Keys being pursued by the Ku Klux Klan and a vengeful southern aristocrat, with lots of great adventures in between.
I ... Read More
Rating: - Cross-burning, lynching and squaws! Where's Leonard Maltin? ;)
If you're looking to relive fond memories of sitting in front of the TV Sunday afternoons watching The Wonderful World of Disney, this will fit the bill nicely.
Treasure of Matecumbe has everything you'd expect from the generally mediocre live-action output Disney was known for in the 1970s: Bad rear-projection shots when people are outdoors? Check. Grainy, mismatched inserts of wildlife borrowed from True-Life Adventures episodes shot 25 years earlier? Check. Half-hearted attempt at a ... Read More
Rating: - Good Offering
This is a great example of The Wonderful World of Disney. Peter Ustinov in a Disney Movie is always a great thing and I love him in both this and Candleshoe.
The story follows the journey of a young boy who inherits a map and decides to follow it. He and his friend travel through the south just after the Civil War, braving the rapids, wild, and despicable bad guys (who killed his father) to find his inheritance. Will it be everything he (and those in his company) hope for?
A good and safe ... Read More
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