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
Jim Hawkins and the Curse of Treasure Island Louis is his son. The ship "Hispaniola", which Jim knows well, is chartered. Under the command of Captain Reid, it sails to the island, but is shadowed by a black-sailed brig, unidentified but possibly owned by Maltby and his followers. Jim accompanies a party of sailors ashore. He is separated from them, and cannot find them again; they have vanished without trace. In a dark cave, he is captured by a man he cannot see, but suspects of being Tait. He barely escapes on a crude raft and drifts for several days before being rescued, more dead than alive. He