Planned
by Walt Disney to be the British version of his highly popular Spin & Marty and Hardy Boys TV series, The Adventures of Clint & Mac has
some interesting elements but is otherwise unexceptional. Middle-class Clint, an American, and hoity-toity
Mac, a local Brit, team up to solve the mystery of a stolen manuscript of
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Serialized in ten-minute segments, the story
all takes place in a single day. Though
spordically fun, it’s all pretty insubstantial; lacking the naturalistic humor,
convincing camaraderie and adventurism of its American counterparts. The fact that Terence Fisher directed it
makes this all the more painful of a missed opportunity. Fisher was about to become the Hammer studio’s
resident auteur for the forthcoming decade, thanks to the huge success of his Curse of Frankenstein the same year
(1957).
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