
Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson..
Bernard McConville, Robert Louis Stevenson
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Picture, if you will, a monochrome ocean that glints like polished obsidian; a boy’s silhouette perched on a yardarm, moonlight dripping off the hem of his too-large coat; a one-legged silhouette whose smile could slice sailcloth. That single image, seared onto nitrate more than a century ago, is why the 1920 Treasur...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Chester M. Franklin

Chester M. Franklin
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" Picture, if you will, a monochrome ocean that glints like polished obsidian; a boy’s silhouette perched on a yardarm, moonlight dripping off the hem of his too-large coat; a one-legged silhouette whose smile could slice sailcloth. That single image, seared onto nitrate more than a century ago, is why the 1920 Treasure Island refuses to molder in archive vaults. Directors have flogged Stevenson’s yarn across every imaginable medium—Technicolor mega-spectacles, Muppet frolics, even galaxy-farin..."

