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Cpt Smollett. Philip Glenister. Squire Trelawney. Rupert Penry-Jones. Dr Livesey. Daniel Mays. Keith Allen. Billy Bones. David Harewood. Meg Hawkins. Shirley Henderson. Jim Hawkins. Toby Regbo. Top cast Edit. Daniel Mays Dr. David Livesey as Dr. David Livesey. Donald Sutherland Flint as Flint. Keith Allen Pew as Pew. Steve Barron. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit.

Young Jim Hawkins is the only one who can sucessfully get a schooner to a legendary Island known for buried Treasure. But aboard the ship is a mysterious cook named John Silver, whose true motivation on the journey challenges Jim's trust in the entire crew. Show no mercy. Seize what's yours.

Action Adventure History Mystery Thriller. Did you know Edit. Goofs As the ship gets underway the first time, the order is given to "hoist the main sail".

Fore-and-aft sails are hoisted, but the ship's main sail is square-rigged. Square sails on ships of that time were unfurled, not hoisted.

Quotes Long John Silver : I say she's a lovely ship, sir. Connections Version of Treasure Island User reviews 47 Review. Top review. Reasonably interesting adaptation of the classic novel. Robert Louis Stevenson's classic swashbuckler has been made into countless films and TV series in several languages, and has survived Muppet Treasure Island as well as an interstellar Disney animation called Treasure Planet.

Pleasingly, Sky1's new version made a fine addition to the lineage, combining a shrewdly picked cast with lush production values while retaining much of the darkness and menace of Stevenson's novel. The opening scenes established an appropriate atmosphere of near-supernatural dread, as the crazed Billy Bones David Harewood , pictured right arrived at the Admiral Benbow inn near Bristol. He was drinking himself to death in his terror of being tracked down by his buccaneering ex-comrades from the Caribbean, because Bones it was who had acquired Captain Flint's map of where the treasure was buried.

Long story short, the pirates turned up not least Blind Pew bearing the ominous Black Spot , Bones died of fright, and young Jim Hawkins Toby Regbo managed to scarper with the map with the pirates on his trail.

Big mistake, because while the toffee-nosed Trelawney pretended to be a friend and ally who would bankroll the treasure hunt, in fact he was planning to seize the treasure for himself a departure from the blustering but decent character in the book. In Rupert Penry-Jones's detailed portrayal, Trelawney pictured below was desperate to prove himself worthy of his father, a distinguished naval officer, but despite his sword-fighting and shooting skills, his flawed character left him humiliatingly short of the powers of leadership he aspired to.

These had to be provided by Captain Smollett Philip Glenister , a sun-baked, wind-dried veteran of the seven seas hired as skipper by Trelawney.

Although not averse to doubling his money by threatening to quit, sensing rightly that the expedition had the makings of a blood-soaked debacle, it was Smollett pictured below who brought backbone and a whiff of grapeshot to the poop deck. Fears that Eddie Izzard might turn Long John Silver into a one-legged stand-up comic with a wisecracking parrot on his shoulder rather than a murderous, scheming pirate were rapidly dispelled, and as the story developed, the layers of his characterisation were gradually unpeeled.

At first masquerading as an honest, if obsequious, old sea-dog looking for nautical employment, Silver proved adaptable and cunning in his quest for the buried treasure of his previous boss, the despicable Flint a brief but exceedingly salty cameo by Donald Sutherland. Though more than happy to murder anyone who got in his way, whether it was his own villainous crew or Trelawney's squad, Silver was also capable of reflection and remorse, and in the case of Jim Hawkins even of paternal feelings.

This moral ambiguity hoisted the piece several notches above, let's say, Pirates of the Caribbean. For instance, it became quite tempting to side with Silver and his mutinous vagabonds, since there was undoubted merit in their claim to be the rightful owners of the treasure, of which they'd been robbed by Flint. As long as you didn't object to their bloodthirsty uncouthness or think the treasure belonged to the people from whom the pirates had stolen it, that is.

But let's face it, they'd probably nicked it from some rival colonial power in the first place. Shooting the Caribbean sequences in Puerto Rico paid major dividends, not least because of the way they contrasted starkly with the grey, freezing scenes back in England actually shot in Dublin.