Disney’s Treasure Island earns a low accuracy score from a pirate history expert. Released in 1950, Treasure Island is an adaptation of the 1883 book by Robert Louis Stevenson. The film, which was directed by Byron Haskin, chronicles the adventures of Jim Hawkins (Bobby Driscoll) and Captain Long John Silver (Robert Newton) as they quest after buried treasure. Treasure Island was a successful first foray into pirate-themed entertainment for Disney, but not nearly as successful as their later Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
