In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain Flint's buried treasure.
Wallace Beery
as Long John Silver
Jackie Cooper
as Jim Hawkins
Lionel Barrymore
as Billy Bones
Otto Kruger
as Doctor Livesey
Lewis Stone
as Captain Smollett
Nigel Bruce
as Squire Trelawney
Charles 'Chic' Sale
as Ben Gunn
William V. Mong
as Pew
Charles McNaughton
as Black Dog
Dorothy Peterson
as Mrs. Hawkins
Charles Tatum
I lucked out in high school. I had a good streak of English teachers. While other classes were reading "The Great Gatsby," "The Pigman," and "Hamlet," I was entrenched in "Frankenstein," "In Cold Blood," and "Macbeth." Another classic I got to avoid was "Treasure Island." After watching the 1934 fil...
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 embr...