Top Billed Cast

Wallace Beery
Long John Silver
Jackie Cooper
Jim Hawkins
Lionel Barrymore
Billy Bones
Otto Kruger
Doctor Livesey
Lewis Stone
Captain Smollett
Nigel Bruce
Squire Trelawney
Charles 'Chic' Sale
Ben Gunn
William V. Mong
Pew
Charles McNaughton
Black Dog
Dorothy Peterson
Mrs. Hawkins
Douglass Dumbrille
Pirate of the Spanish Main
Edmund Breese
Pirate of the Spanish Main
Olin Howland
Pirate of the Spanish Main
Charles Irwin
Pirate of the Spanish Main
Edward Pawley
Pirate of the Spanish Main
Richard Powell
Pirate of the Spanish Main
James Burke
Pirate of the Spanish Main
John Anderson
Pirate of the Spanish Main
Charles Bennett
Pirate of the Spanish Main
Cora Sue Collins
Young Girl at the Inn (uncredited)
Bruce Bennett
Man at Tavern (uncredited)
Ed Brady
Pirate (uncredited)

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A review by Charles Tatum

Written by Charles Tatum on Wed Sep 27 2023

I lucked out in high school. I had a good streak of English teachers. While other classes were reading "The Great Gatsby," "The Pigman," and "Hamlet," I was entrenched in "Frankenstein," "In Cold Blood," and "Macbeth." Another classic I got to avoid was "Treasure Island." After watching the 1934 film version, I kind of get the feeling Robert Louis Stevenson's book was better. Jim Hawkins (Jackie Cooper) and his mother (Dorothy Peterson) run a small inn in England. One night a creepy paranoid drunk named Billy Bones (Lionel Barrymore) checks in, demanding Jim watch out for a one-legged man wh...