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Critics rate it 29 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain Flint's buried treasure.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 29 points higher than audiences do.
80 audience votes
Key crew
- John Lee MahinScreenplay
- Victor FlemingDirector
- Herbert StothartOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Wallace BeeryLong John Silver
- Jackie CooperJim Hawkins
- Lionel BarrymoreBilly Bones
- Otto KrugerDoctor Livesey
- Lewis StoneCaptain Smollett
- Nigel BruceSquire Trelawney
- Charles 'Chic' SaleBen Gunn
- William V. MongPew
- Charles McNaughtonBlack Dog
- Dorothy PetersonMrs. Hawkins
- Douglass DumbrillePirate of the Spanish Main
- Edmund BreesePirate of the Spanish Main
Stills
Themes
sailboatislandbased on novel or bookpirate gangtreasure hunttreasure mapsunken treasurepirate18th centurypirate ship