Treasure Island (1920 film)

Infobox Film | name = Treasure Island
director = Maurice Tourneur
producer = Maurice Tourneur
writer = Jules Furthman
Novel:
Robert Louis Stevenson
starring = Lon Chaney Sr.
Shirley Mason
Charles Ogle
Sydney Deane
Charles Hill Mailes
cinematography = René Guissart
editing =
distributor = Famous Players-Lasky Corp.
A Paramount-Artcraft Super Special
released = April 4, 1920
runtime = 76 min
country = USA
language = Silent film
English intertitlesYoung Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.

ynopsis

Young Jim Hawkins helps his widowed mother run the Admiral Benbow Inn on the west coast of England. When former pirate Billy Bones is killed at the inn by other pirates seeking the map to the lost treasure of Captain Flint, Jim finds the map and turns it over to his mother's friends, Dr. Livesey and Squire Trelawney, who organize an expedition to recover the treasure. Jim stows away aboard Livesey and Trelawney's ship, which is manned by a crew largely chosen by Long John Silver, a one-legged pirate posing as a cook. Silver's plans for a mutiny are discovered by Jim and reported to Livesey and Trelawney, who manage to hold the pirates at bay until they arrive at the island and take refuge in a shelter with Jim and the loyal crew members. A battle with the pirates results in the map being turned over to Silver and his gang, but the pirates are eventually routed, and Jim and the others find Flint's treasure through the services of Ben Gunn, a pirate who had been stranded on the island.

Background

Announcements of the film's upcoming production in trade journals during September 1919 stated that Jack Holt would play Long John Silver and that Wallace Beery would play Israel Hands, though both roles were eventually filled by different actors. The film opened in New York on April 11, 1920, and some contemporary sources give that date for the film's release.

References

* [http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=502924&category=Overview Article on "Treasure Island" at the TCM Movie Database]

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0011785 "Treasure Island" at the Internet Movie Database]