Taglines: Sail the high seas. Battle the pirates. Live the adventure.
Treasure Island movie storyline. Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is besieged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover Billy Bones’ treasure map for which the buccaneers had come.
Jim agrees to sail on the Hispaniola with Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey to find the treasure on a mysterious island. Upon arriving at the island, ship’s cook and scalawag Long John Silver leads a mutiny of crew members who want the treasure for themselves. Jim helps the Squire and Hispaniola officers to survive the mutiny and fight back against Silver’s men, who have taken over the Hispaniola.
Treasure Island is a 1990 TV film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous 1883 novel Treasure Island, written & directed by Fraser Clarke Heston (Charlton Heston’s son), and also starring several notable British actors, including Christian Bale, Oliver Reed, Christopher Lee (both of whom had starred alongside Heston in the 1973 Three Musketeers film), Julian Glover and Pete Postlethwaite.
The film was an original production filmed and aired by the TNT network, and was also released theatrically outside the US. The title has appeared on some covers as “Devils Treasure”, rather than “Treasure Island”. This version of the story is noted for its faithfulness to the book, with much of the dialogue coming directly from it, as well as recreating several of the more violent scenes from the book.
Treasure Island (1990)
Directed by: Fraser Clarke Heston
Starring: Charlton Heston, Christian Bale, Oliver Reed, Christopher Lee, Julian Glover, Pete Postlethwaite, Clive Wood, Isla Blair, Nicholas Amer, James Cosmo
Screenplay by: Fraser Clarke Heston
Production Design by: Tony Woollard
Cinematography by: Robert Steadman
Film Editing by: Eric Boyd-Perkins, Tom Gunn
Set Decoration by: Joanne Woollard
Art Direction by: Ricky Eyres
Music by: Paddy Moloney
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: January 22, 1990
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