Treasure Island (1990 film)
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| Written by | Fraser Clarke Heston (screenplay) Robert Louis Stevenson (novel) |
| Directed by | Fraser Clarke Heston |
| Starring |
Charlton Heston Christian Bale Oliver Reed Christopher Lee Julian Glover Pete Postlethwaite Clive Wood |
| Music by | Paddy Moloney, The Chieftains |
| Country of origin | UK / US |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Executive producer(s) | Peter Snell |
| Producer(s) | Fraser Clarke Heston |
| Cinematography | Robert Steadman |
| Running time | 132 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | TNT |
| Original release | January 22, 1990 (US) |
Treasure Island is a 1990 TV film adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous 1883 novel Treasure Island, written & 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.
The film was an original production filmed and aired by the TNT network, and was also released theatrically outside the US. The title has appeared on some covers as "Devils Treasure", rather than "Treasure Island". 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.
Jim Hawkins (Christian Bale) discovers a treasure map and embarks on a journey to find the treasure, but pirates led by Long John Silver (Charlton Heston) have plans to take the treasure for themselves by way of mutiny.
It was filmed in 1989 on location in Cornwall, England, in Jamaica, and also at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England. The replica ship Bounty II was used as the fictional Hispaniola on film. It was originally constructed for the film "Mutiny on The Bounty", and was set to be destroyed at the end of the film but Marlon Brando protested and the ship was kept intact. It sank off the coast of the Carolinas during Hurricane Sandy in October 2012.
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