Treasure Island Treasure Island, or the mutiny of the Hispaniola, credited to the pseudonym "Captain George North". It was first published as a book on 14 November 1883, by Cassell & Co. An old sailor, calling himself "the captain"—real name Billy Bones—comes to lodge at the Admiral Benbow Inn on the West English coast during the mid-18th-century, paying the innkeeper's son, Jim Hawkins, a few pennies to keep a lookout for "a one-legged seafaring man". A former shipmate with intact legs, but lacking two fingers, shows up to confront Billy about sharing his treasure map. After running the stranger off in a
Treasure Island (1950 film) Treasure Island (1950 film) Treasure Island is a 1950 live action adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions, adapted from the Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel. Directed by Byron Haskin, it stars Bobby Driscoll as Jim Hawkins and Robert Newton as Long John Silver. "Treasure Island" is notable for being Disney's first completely live-action film and the first screen version of "Treasure Island" made in color. It was filmed in England on location and at Denham Film Studios, Buckinghamshire. In the West Coast of England in 1765, a young boy called Jim Hawkins lives with his mother in a tiny