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
Hispaniola and "La Isla Española" in Spanish, with both meaning "the Spanish island". De las Casas shortened the name to "Española", and when d‘Anghiera detailed his account of the island in Latin, he rendered its name as "Hispaniola". In the oldest documented map of the island, created by Andrés de Morales, Los Haitises is labeled "Montes de Haití" ("Haiti Mountains"), and de las Casas apparently named the whole island Haiti on the basis of that particular region, as d'Anghiera states that the name of one part was given to the whole island. Due to Taíno, Spanish and French influences on the