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Release year: 1934

Storyline

Young Jim Hawkins is torn between his loyalty to his benefactors and his affection for lovable rogue Long John Silver in their struggle to recover a buried pirate treasure.

Top credits

Directors

Victor Fleming

Writers

Cast

Wallace Beery — Long John Silver
Jackie Cooper — Jim Hawkins
Lionel Barrymore — Billy Bones
Otto Kruger — Doctor Livesey

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Did you know

• Jackie Cooper did not like his performance, writing in his autobiography that he felt an older English boy should have played Jim Hawkins.

• MGM boss Louis B. Mayer insisted on a happy ending, so there had to be a reshoot. Wallace Beery so resented this that he sabotaged the extra work by blowing his lines, staying in his dressing room for hours or taking long breaks. As a result, what was scheduled as a one day shoot took four days.

• According to TCM, in spite of the popular pairing of Jackie Cooper and Wallace Beery, in the 1930s (5 films together), Cooper did not enjoy working with Beery and actually felt he was a grumpy curmudgeon, saying he was difficult to work with and a scene stealer.