![]() ![]() ![]() One day, pirate Black Dog appears at the inn, sword fights Bones, and retreats. Bones spends his days keeping watch for a one-legged man and making a dangerous nuisance of himself. ![]() This version of the story is noted for its faithfulness to the book, with much of the dialogue coming directly from it, as well as recreating several of the more violent scenes from the book.Ĭaptain Bones, an elderly pirate, arrives at the Admiral Benbow inn, owned by Jim Hawkins and his widowed mother. The title has appeared on some covers as "Devils Treasure", rather than "Treasure Island". The film was an original production filmed and aired by the TNT network, and was also released theatrically outside the US. Treasure Island is a 1990 British-American made-for-television film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 novel of the same name, written and directed by Fraser Clarke Heston ( Charlton Heston's son), and also starring several notable British actors, including Christian Bale, Oliver Reed, Christopher Lee (both of whom had starred alongside Heston in the 1973 Three Musketeers film), Julian Glover and Pete Postlethwaite. ![]()
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