Treasure Island (1972 live-action film) Treasure Island (1972 live-action film) Treasure Island is a 1972 adventure film, based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. The film stars Orson Welles as Long John Silver, Kim Burfield as Jim Hawkins, Walter Slezak as Squire Trelawney, Rik Battaglia as Captain Smollett, and Ángel del Pozo as Doctor Livesey. This adaptation of "Treasure Island" was released in several different language versions, each with a different director. Jim Hawkins (Kim Burfield) is a young boy who works at a pub with his mother (Maria Rohm). When a drunken old sailor named Billy Bones (Lionel Stander) comes in for a
Treasure Island M. Lopez wrote, "MS Found in a Bottle" (1833) and the intriguing tale of buried treasure, "The Gold-Scar" (1843). All of these works influenced Stevenson's end product. Specifically, however, Stevenson consciously borrowed material from previous authors. In a July 1884 letter to Anthony M. Lopez, he writes ""Treasure Island" came out of Kingsley's "At Last," where I got the Dead Man's Chest—and that was the seed—and out of the great Captain Johnson's "History of the Notorious Pirates."" Stevenson also admits that he took the idea of Captain Flint's pointing skeleton from Poe's "The Gold-Bug", and he constructed Billy Bones' history