Treasure Island (1934 film) Treasure Island (1934 film) Treasure Island is a 1934 film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, and Nigel Bruce. It is an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous 1883 novel of the same name. Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map and travels on a sailing ship to a remote island, but pirates led by Long John Silver threaten to take away the honest seafarers’ riches and lives. Young Jim Hawkins (Jackie Cooper) and his mother (Dorothy Peterson) run the Admiral Benbow, a tavern near Bristol, England. One dark and stormy night, during
The Orphan of Ellis Island The Orphan of Ellis Island The Orphan of Ellis Island: A Time Travel Adventure is a 1997 children's novel by Elvira Woodruff. The events of the novel take place at Ellis Island, where a boy, Dominic, is on a class trip with his new class shortly after being placed in a new foster home, and eventually finds his way into a janitorial closet. He falls asleep. When he wakes up, there is no one there. Lonely and afraid, he picks up display telephones talking to the recordings that are the voices of immigrants who talk about their lives and their