Treasure Island (1934 film)
Treasure Island is a 1934 film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevensons famous 1883 novel Treasure Island. Jim Hawkins Jackie Cooper discovers a treasure map and travels on a sailing ship to a remote island, but pirates led by Long John Silver Wallace Beery threaten to take away the honest seafarers riches and lives.
During the voyage, several fatal accidents happen to sailors who disapprove of Silver and his cohorts. Then, the night before landing on the island, Jim overhears Silver plotting to take the treasure and kill Smolletts men. Jim goes ashore with the men, and encounters an old hermit named Ben Gunn Chic Sale, who tells him that he has found Flints treasure. Meanwhile, Smollett and his loyal men flee to Flints stockade on the island for safety. Silvers men then attack the stockade when Smollett refuses to give them the treasure map. While the situation looks hopeless, Jim secretly goes back to the Hispaniola at night, sails it to a safe location and shoots one of the pirates in selfdefense. When he returns to the stockade, Silvers men are there and Silver tells them that a treaty has been signed. The pirates want to kill Jim, but Silver protects him. Dr. Livesey comes for Jim, but the boy refuses to break his word to Silver not to run away. The next day the pirates search for the treasure hold and when they find it, it is empty. When some of the pirates mutiny against Silver, Livesey and Gunn join him in the fight. Smollett then sails home with the treasure, which Gunn had hidden in his cave, and with Silver as his prisoner. Unable to stand by and let his friend be hanged, Jim frees Silver. As he sails away, Silver promises to hunt treasure with Jim again some day, as Honest John Silver.Wallace Beery had originally been cast as Israel Hands in director Maurice Tourneurs silent production of Treasure Island for Paramount in 1920 now a lost film. Beery would be replaced by Joseph Singleton but would appear that year in another of Tourneurs masterpiece silent films, The Last of the Mohicans. ........
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