Treasure Island (1990) (TV)

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Director:

Fraser Clarke Heston

Writers:

Fraser Clarke Heston (writer)
Robert Louis Stevenson (novel)

Release Date:

22 January 1990 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure

Tagline:

Sail the high seas. Battle the pirates. Live the adventure.

Plot:

Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies...

Plot Keywords:

Historical | Based On Novel | Title Spoken By Character

Cast

Charlton Heston	...	Long John Silver
Christian Bale	...	Jim Hawkins
Oliver Reed	...	Capt. Billy Bones
Christopher Lee	...	Blind Pew
Richard Johnson	...	Squire Trelawney
Julian Glover	...	Dr. Livesey
Isla Blair	...	Mrs. Hawkins
Clive Wood	...	Captain Smollet
Nicolas Amer	...	Ben Gunn
John Abbott	...	Joyce
James Cosmo	...	Redruth
James Coyle	...	Morgan
Michael Halsey	...	Israel Hands
Michael Thoma	...	Hunter
Pete Postlethwaite	...	George Merry (as Peter Postlethwaite)

Also Known As:

Devil's Treasure (Australia) (video title)

Runtime:

Spain:131 min | Sweden:122 min

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:12 (video rating) | Iceland:14 (original rating) | Finland:K-11 (new rating: 2001) | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:11

Filming Locations:

Clovelly, Devon, England, UK

Company:

Agamemnon Films

Trivia:

The ship used in the film is The Bounty from the 1962 production of Mutiny on the Bounty (1962).

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: During the scene where Flint's men are attacking the inn, Mrs. Hawkins is carrying a candlestick... with an electric cord running from it.

Quotes:

Captain Smollet, Redruth: [the crew have just fought off the attacking mutineers]
Redruth: I got one of them in the leg, sir. I'm sorry.
Captain Smollet: Nothing to be sorry for, man. You were fighting in self-defense.
Redruth: Yes, but I was aiming for his head. This musket was firing low!

Movie Connections:

Version of Treasure Island (1999/I)

An awesome version of a Classic!!! WHERE'S THE DVD?!?!?!?

(it would be 10 for 10 if this were released in WIDESCREEN DTS !!!) This TNT backed (probably made for TV) version had me hooked from the first minute. Faithfully following the tale of pirates treasure, we follow young Jim Hawkins from his fascination with Captain "Billy Bones" (a picture perfect performance by the late Oliver Reed) to his adventures aboard the Hispaniola and eventually Treasure Island. The casting is magnificent. Charlton Heston plays his Long John Silver with an air of jaded humanity that we almost empathize with him. The "good guys" are also humanized and show some of their "darker" sides in the course of the telling of the tale. I just wish this would be released on DVD. It is truly an effort of love and a tribute to the great Robert Louis Stevenson. Truly wonderful, Mateys!