{"id":48380,"date":"2020-03-29T13:16:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T20:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=48380"},"modified":"2020-11-27T15:55:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T22:55:50","slug":"treasure-island-1934","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=48380","title":{"rendered":"Treasure Island (1934)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;We&#8217;ll always be mates, won&#8217;t we?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Treasure-Island-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Treasure-Island-Poster-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-48383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Treasure-Island-Poster-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Treasure-Island-Poster-85x128.jpg 85w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Treasure-Island-Poster.jpg 664w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen an alcoholic sea captain (Lionel Barrymore) visits and then dies at an inn run by a widow (Dorothy Peterson) and her son (Jackie Cooper), he leaves behind a coveted treasure map. Cooper sets sail on an adventure with Captain Smollet (Lewis Stone), Dr. Livesey (Otto Kruger), and Squire Trelawney (Nigel Bruce), also befriending a one-legged pirate known as Long John Silver (Wallace Beery).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At Sea<\/li>\n<li>Friendship<\/li>\n<li>Gold Seekers<\/li>\n<li>Hidden Treasure<\/li>\n<li>Lionel Barrymore Films<\/li>\n<li>Pirates<\/li>\n<li>Victor Fleming Films<\/li>\n<li>Wallace Beery Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nThis first sound adaptation of Robert Louis Stephenson&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Treasure_Island\">classic adventure tale<\/a> re-paired MGM stars Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper &#8212; who first appeared together in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=43265\"><em>The Champ<\/em> (1931)<\/a>, then <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=5250\"><em>The Bowery<\/em> (1933)<\/a> &#8212; in a hokey retread of their &#8220;paternal bonding&#8221; from these earlier films. The cinematography and sets are appropriately atmospheric, but Beery&#8217;s over-acting and Cooper&#8217;s limited range severely hamper our ability to believe in this tale as anything other than a young boy&#8217;s fantasy writ large. (Why in the world was it considered appealing to have loutish, lying Beery take advantage of gullible Cooper time and again?) Film fanatics should check out <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=6344\">Disney&#8217;s live action version<\/a> instead. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Atmospheric cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Treasure-Island-Cinematography.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Treasure-Island-Cinematography-1024x653.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"408\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-48381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Treasure-Island-Cinematography-1024x653.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Treasure-Island-Cinematography-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Treasure-Island-Cinematography-128x82.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Treasure-Island-Cinematography-768x489.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Treasure-Island-Cinematography.png 1533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Treasure-Island-Still.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Treasure-Island-Still-1024x656.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"410\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-48382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Treasure-Island-Still-1024x656.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Treasure-Island-Still-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Treasure-Island-Still-128x82.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Treasure-Island-Still-768x492.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Treasure-Island-Still.png 1509w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though fans of the book may be curious to check it out. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0025907\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1934\/08\/18\/archives\/wallace-beery-and-jackie-cooper-in-a-film-version-of-stevensons.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/2515\/treasure-island#articles-reviews?articleId=60063\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/dvdsavant\/s2114trea.html\">DVD Savant Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll always be mates, won&#8217;t we?&#8221; Synopsis: When an alcoholic sea captain (Lionel Barrymore) visits and then dies at an inn run by a widow (Dorothy Peterson) and her son (Jackie Cooper), he leaves behind a coveted treasure map. Cooper sets sail on an adventure with Captain Smollet (Lewis Stone), Dr. Livesey (Otto Kruger), and Squire Trelawney (Nigel Bruce), also befriending a one-legged pirate known as Long John Silver (Wallace Beery). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: At Sea Friendship Gold&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=48380\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48380"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55353,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48380\/revisions\/55353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}