Treasure Island

Treasure Island

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  • Genre: Adventure, Family, TV Movie
  • Release Date: 1990-01-22
  • Runtime: 131 minutes
  • : 6.5
  • Production Company: Agamemnon Films
  • Production Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
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6.5/10
6.5
From 128 Ratings

Description

Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover Billy Bones' treasure map for which the buccaneers had come. Jim agrees to sail on the S.S. Espaniola with Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey to find the treasure on a mysterious isiand. Upon arriving at the island, ship's cook and scaliwag Long John Silver leads a mutiny of crew members who want the treasure for themselves. Jim helps the Squire and Espaniola officers to survive the mutiny and fight back against Silver's men, who have taken over the Espaniola.

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Reviews

  • CinemaSerf

    7
    By CinemaSerf
    An engaging effort from Jackie Cooper as the fledgling "Jim Hawkins" works well here with a charismatic one from Wallace Beery as the duplicitous "Long John Silver" as Victor Fleming takes us on an exciting adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's seafaring adventure. It's "Jim" who finds himself embroiled in some piratical vengeance at his mother's tavern when "Billy Bones" (Lionel Barrymore) leaves him a map to an enormous fortune hidden on a desert island. Lucky to escape with his life, he enlists the help of the doctor (Otto Kruger) and the blabbermouth squire (Nigel Bruce) to employ "Capt. Smollett" (Lewis Stone) and off they sail. Of course, the crew of the ship have not been selected by the captain, but by the one-legged "Silver" who served with the original owner of the loot and who, with his ruthless pals, intends on reclaiming it once they get to the island. Can young "Jim" and his friends stay alive long enough to fetch the treasure and thwart the dastardly "Silver"? This is one of my favourite childhood stories, and Beery puts his heart and soul into it. The supporting cast - including the bumbling Bruce, the menacing Charles McNaughton's "Black Dog", but most especially Chic Sale as the mad as cheese "Ben Gunn" all pull together well building to a denouement of just a little enjoyable mischief. Swash, buckle and some seriously dangerous plum-duff on the high seas! What's not to like?

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