A feature film starring Orson Welles with Kim Burfield
Lionel Stander , Walter Slezak
Young Jim Hawkins is cabin boy on the Hispaniola, which has set sail in search of a notorious pirate's buried treasure; but as they approach the island where the treasure is buried, Jim overhears Long John Silver , the ship's one-legged cook, planning a mutiny.
Orson Welles plays Long John Silver in this version of the famous adventure story by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Screenplay by WOLF MANKOWITZ and o. w. JEEVES (Orson Welles)
Produced by HARRY ALAN TOWERS Directed by JOHN HOUGH Films: pages 16-17
(FirstshowingonBritishtelevision)