ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S classic adventure story "Treasure Island" is the subject of Walt Disney's first all-live-action technicolor film.
Adventurers of all ages and either sex who find the words "buried treasure" enough to fire the imagination will re-discover in the drama-packed voyage of the movie "Hispaniola" a bounty of make-believe.
The boy Jim Hawkins, played by 13-year-old Bobby Driscoll, is the hero of this refusing melodrama filled with troubles, alarms, courage in the face of terror, and testings of the spirit.
On these pages is a portrait gallery of some of the cast who bring to life Stevenson's swash-buckling characters in the R.K.O. production.
The story of "Treasure Island" is told in the 1760 period, when pirates had been driven to cover, but when the possibilities of recovering their buried treasure were still very real.
Starting in Bristol on the west coast of England, it pictures a colorful seaport of that day, and brings to life the hard-bitten seamen of one of the most exciting eras of maritime history.
The conflict shifts to the decks of the squarerigger "Hispaniola," and here the crew divides into rival camps – the treasure-seeking group headed by Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey, and the pirate crew led by Long John Silver.
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Location
Primary location:
TROVE / National Library of Australia
