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Treasure Island (1934) Hispaniola

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  • Member since
    August 2005
  • From: vernon hills illinois
Posted by sumpter250 on Monday, July 16, 2007 11:56 AM
  The last time I saw the Wallace Beery "long John Silver", in the 1934 "Treasure Island", was on a TV show called "The Million Dollar Movie", some time in the mid to late fifties. Hispaniola, was most likely, an active sailing ship at the time of filming, and, unfortunately, my memory of that film has faded to "inaccessible". I took a brief look at internet sources, and can only find reference to the movie, and nothing about the ship. I just recently purchased a DVD of the Disney version, with Robert Newton as Long John Silver. I suppose I like that version better because of the TV series "Long John Silver" that he starred in. As to the Hispaniola, the 1941 edition of Stevenson's Treasure Island, in Squire Trelawney's letter to Dr. Livesey, she is described: You never imagined a sweeter schooner....a child might sail her...200 tons, name Hispaniola. Interestingly, all the illustrations in the book, indicate she was a topsail schooner.

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  • Member since
    March 2004
  • From: Spartanburg, SC
Treasure Island (1934) Hispaniola
Posted by subfixer on Monday, July 16, 2007 5:31 AM
I saw this film last night for the first time in 30 years (the one with Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore and Jackie Cooper) and was wondering what ship was used as the Hispaniola in the filming. It is definitely not a model and seemed to be crewed with sailors who knew what they were doing. Altogether, it was a very good movie, even better than the Disney version made in the fifties.

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