Upon reaching Treasure Island, Silver offers to tow the ship to a safer anchorage, using two of the ship's rowboats.

Jim reveals the treachery to Smollett, who asks Jim to stay friends with Silver to learn more. Jim overhears Silver and the crew's plan to mutiny, discovering that the seamen hired by Silver are Captain Flint's old crew. Smollett is concerned about the crew, especially because the nature of their journey is common knowledge.Īt sea, Silver convinces Jim to acquire some rum, which he uses to get the first mate, Mr Arrow, drunk so that he is washed overboard in a storm. Silver strikes up a friendship with Jim and joins the expedition as the ship's cook. Trelawney hires Captain Smollett and his ship, the Hispaniola, bringing along Dr Livesey as the ship's doctor and Jim as the cabin boy.īefore departure, Trelawney is taken in by Long John Silver, a one-legged innkeeper, who agrees to gather a crew. Trelawney recognizes the map as belonging to the buccaneer Captain Flint and bankrolls a voyage to discover the pirate's lost treasure. Livesey, only to find Bones dead at the inn, and Jim shows Trelawney the map. Jim returns with Squire Trelawney and Dr.

Captain William Bones, a sickly lodger, gives Jim a treasure map after being visited by two pirates, the second of whom gives the captain a note marked with the black spot, and sends him for help with a mysterious promise to share. In the West Coast of England in 1765, a young boy called Jim Hawkins lives with his mother in a tiny country inn which they run. It was filmed in the United Kingdom on location and at Denham Film Studios, Buckinghamshire. Treasure Island was Disney's first completely live-action film and the first screen version of Treasure Island made in color. Directed by Byron Haskin, it stars Bobby Driscoll as Jim Hawkins and Robert Newton as Long John Silver. Treasure Island is a 1950 adventure film produced by RKO-Walt Disney British Productions, adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel of the same name.

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