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Treasure Island is a 1934 film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, and Nigel Bruce.It is an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous 1883 novel of the same name.
Wallace Fitzgerald Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American film and stage actor. [1] He is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill (1930) opposite Marie Dressler, as General Director Preysing in Grand Hotel (1932), as the pirate Long John Silver in Treasure Island (1934), as Pancho Villa in Viva Villa!
Wallace Beery was the first speaking Long John Silver in the 1934 film also starring Lionel Barrymore. Robert Newton became an iconic Long John Silver in Disney's 1950 live-action film. The 1954 film, Long John Silver, again starred Robert Newton as the title character, which he would reprise in television (see below).
Both Holt and Beery as well as Lon Chaney and Bull Montana had appeared in Tourneur's Victory the year before. (Beery later played Long John Silver in the 1934 remake.) The film reportedly had color sequences, possibly hand-colored with the Handschiegel Color Process. The film opened in New York on April 11, 1920, and some contemporary sources ...
He played Long John Silver in Walt Disney's version of Treasure Island (1950), shot in the UK, with Bobby Driscoll and directed by Byron Haskin. Less well known is Waterfront (1950) in which Richard Burton appeared in his third film. His final performance on stage was in the 1950 production of Gaslight with Rosamund John at the Vaudeville Theatre.
Long John Silver – Den äventyrliga och sannfärdiga berättelsen om mitt liv och leverne som lyckoriddare och mänsklighetens fiende (1998) is a prequel by the Swedish author Björn Larsson, who tells the fictional story of the pirate Long John Silver, told in first person by Silver himself in a manuscript in his last days of life.
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Charles Farrell, Esther Ralston, Wallace Beery: Also known as Sons of the Sea. Set in the Mediterranean Sea, in the early 19th century. 1927 The Road to Romance: United States John S. Robertson: Ramon Novarro, Marceline Day, Marc McDermott: Based on Romance: 1928 The Beautiful Corsair: Italy Wladimiro De Liguoro: Rina De Liguoro: The First Kiss ...