When young Jim Hawkins (Jackie Cooper) finds a treasure map inside a pirate's chest, he's headed off on a high adventure. Hawkins and family friend Dr. Livesey (Otto Kruger) set off to find the buried treasure, without knowing that half the crew are pirates after the same booty. En route, Hawkins befriends Long John Silver (Wallace Beery), the head of the rogues, and forms a relationship that will prove lifesaving in the dangerous days ahead. Director Victor Fleming's Treasure Island is a bang-up adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's page-turning novel, and its first adaptation as a sound film.
