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
The Secret of Treasure Island also included serials "Batman and Robin", "Mysterious Doctor Satan" and "The Adventures of Rex and Rinty". The serial was shown along with the 1922 "Down to the Sea in Ships" at the 2006 Memphis Film Festival, and in an article about the festival John Beifuss of "The Commercial Appeal" called the two serials "Elmer Clifton classics". "Source" The Secret of Treasure Island The Secret of Treasure Island is a 1938 Columbia movie serial based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Treasure Island". The serial is broken into fifteen chapters. Reporter Larry Kent travels to an island in the Caribbean to investigate