Treasure Island (1950)

Treasure Island is a live-action feature film written by Lawrence Edward Watkin based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, and directed by Byron Haskin. It features Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver, Doctor Livesey, Squire Trelawney, Captain Smollett, William Bones, George Merry, Ben Gunn, Israel Hands, Blind Pew, Black Dog, Mr Arrow and a number of other sailors and pirates (including Roach). Captain Flint is repeatedly mentioned.
==Plot==
In 18th-century England, the death of peculiar guest William Bones sends young innkeeper's son Jim Hawkins, alongside honorable locals Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey, on a perilous journey to a treasure island where Captain Flint's loot of 700,000 pounds is buried! But the bombastic one-legged cook hired by Trelawney, Long John Silver, who soon becomes friends with Jim, has a dark secret…
==Behind the scenes==
Treasure Island was released in 1950. It is, of course, based on the R. L. Stevenson novel. It was adapted into a comic story in 1955, and had received a sequel in Long John Silver a year earlier.
It is canon to the Duckverse by way of Adventure Isle.
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