Treasure Island
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Maurice Tourneur
Shirley Mason
Charles Ogle
Sydney Dean
Charles Hill Mailes
Lon Chaney
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Synopsis
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.
Director
Maurice Tourneur
Cast
Shirley Mason
Charles Ogle
Sydney Dean
Charles Hill Mailes
Lon Chaney
Josie Melville
Al Filson
Wilton Taylor
Joseph Singleton
Bull Montana
Harry Holden
Crew
Film Details
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Notes
Stevenson's novel was first published in serial form in the magazine Young Folks from July 1881 to June 1882 under the title "The Sea Cook or Treasure Island." Stephen Fox was a pseudonym for Jules Furthman. 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. For information on other film versions of Stevenson's novel, see the listing above for the 1918 Fox version.
