![]() ![]() Silver tells him that Livesey gave him the map and left with Smollett and Trelawney. Jim sneaks onto Silver's ship and fights Israel Hands before going back to the fort, where he is ultimately captured. That night, Ben and Livesey find the treasure together. ![]() A shootout ensues, and Jim and his allies ultimately win when Trelawney uses a fake cutout of a bar to trick the pirates into falling off a cliff. Silver is informed of this and demands they surrender, but they refuse. He, Trelawney, and Smollett steal a rowboat and head for the island, evading the pirates' cannon fire, and take refuge in the fort. On the ship, Livesey examines the island with his telescope and sees Jim, Silver's crew, and an abandoned fortress. He agrees to help Jim and his friends find the treasure. Three years later, Ben led the other men on a search for Flint's treasure, but they found nothing and the crew left him marooned on the island. He reveals that he and the rest of Flint's men were the ones who killed Flint after they decided to betray him for the treasure. While hiding from them, he meets Ben Gunn, a former member of Flint's crew. Jim steals a rowboat and quickly rows there himself, with Silver and some men going after him. The next day, Treasure Island appears in the distance. Smollett proposes they play dumb for the time being, but they don't see that one of the pirates has spied on them and tells Silver that they know of their plans. Jim sneaks back to Livesey and Trelawney to inform them of Silver's plan. Jim overhears a gathering of Silver and his crew and finds out that he was Captain Flint's right-hand man and that they plan to betray the rest of the crew for the treasure. Under the lead of Captain Smollett, the crew heads for the island. At the Spyglass Inn, Jim gets into a fight with a hostile pirate before they are interrupted by the inn's owner, Long John Silver, who offers to bring his ship, the Hispaniola, and his crew on their treasure hunt. Trelawney decides to assemble a hunt for the treasure, and the three travel to Bristol. Livesey's home, where he tells him and Squire Trelawney of what had happened and presents them with the map. Jim flees, and as the pirates do so too, Blind Pew accidentally falls into a barrel and rolls off a cliffside, falling to his death. Jim takes his map.īlind Pew leads the group of spying pirates on a raid of the inn. ![]() Bones panics and soon dies due to apoplexy. They are later visited by a blind pirate known as Blind Pew, who gives Bones a black spot. Livesey arrives and cheerfully examines him and warns that if he keeps drinking rum, he will die. After Black Dog flees, Bones suffers a stroke. The next day, they are visited by Bones's former shipmate Black Dog, who wants Bones to give him his map. He is soon killed, to which an animated Billy Bones takes the map.īones, who constantly drinks rum, arrives at the Admiral Benbow Inn on a stormy night and asks the innkeeper's son Jim Hawkins to let him know if he sees an old one-legged sailor, not knowing that a group of pirates is spying on them. ![]() In live-action, Captain Flint, bearing a map of Treasure Island, defends himself from pirates who want to take it from him. Live-action songs are also played after certain scenes to present the audiences with morals about drugs and exercise. Throughout the movie, characters are shown bios via introduction cards, which among other traits label them as "not married" (a reference to Seventeen Moments of Spring). It also features the voice talents of Jan Rabson and Steve Bulen. This version of the film is 34 minutes shorter (episodes with living actors were completely removed) than the Soviet version. The film attained a cult classic status almost immediately after release and has won the following awards: Grand Prize in Minsk, 1987 Grand Prize in Kyiv, 1989 1st Prize on International Cinema Festival of Television films in Czechoslovakia.Ī recut American version called The Return to Treasure Island was released direct-to-video in 1992. The first part, Captain Flint's Map, aired in 1986 and the second, Captain Flint's Treasure, in 1988, after which they were always shown together. The film is mostly traditional animation with some live action sequences, which are largely but not entirely separate. It was created by order of the USSR's state television company by the studio Kievnauchfilm. Treasure Island ( Russian: Остров Сокровищ, romanized: Ostrov Sokrovishch) is a Soviet-Ukrainian, two-part, live-action/animated adventure comedy television film based on the 1883 novel with the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson. ![]()
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