it is empty. When some of the pirates mutiny against Silver, Livesey and Gunn join him in the fight. Smollett then sails home with the treasure, which Gunn had hidden in his cave, and with Silver as his prisoner. Silver tells Jim a horror story of a slow death by hanging due to his one leg causing Jim to be unable to stand by and let his friend be hanged, Jim frees Silver. As he sails away, Silver promises to hunt treasure with Jim again some day, as Honest John Silver. Cast Wallace Beery as Long John Silver Jackie Cooper as Jim Hawkins Lionel Barrymore as Billy Bones Otto Kruger as Doctor Livesey Lewis Stone as Captain Smollett Nigel Bruce as Squire Trelawney Charles "Chic" Sale as Ben Gunn William V. Mong as Pew Charles McNaughton as Black Dog Dorothy Peterson as Mrs. Hawkins Vernon Downing as Inn Boy As Pirates of the Spanish Main: Douglass Dumbrille (Israel Hands) Edmund Breese (Job Anderson) Olin Howland (Dick) Charles Irwin (Abraham Gray) Edward Pawley (William O'Brien) Richard Powell (Post) James Burke (George Merry) John Anderson (Harry Sykes) Charles Bennett (Daddy Dawson) Harry Cording as Henry (uncredited) J. M. Kerrigan as Tom Morgan (uncredited) Casting notes Wallace Beery originally was cast as Israel Hands in director Maurice Tourneur's silent production of Treasure Island for Paramount in 1920 (now a lost film). Beery was replaced by Joseph Singleton but appeared that year in Tourneur's silent masterpiece The Last of the Mohicans. Reception The film's box office performance was described as "disappointing" although it was MGM's third biggest film of the season with rentals of $2,264,000. It was re-issued in 1937–38 and earned an additional $144,000. Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene favorably compared the film to Midshipman Easy, describing Treasure Island as having "a deeper, a more poetic value", with characters and events providing rich symbolism and a palpable sense of good and evil. References External links Treasure Island at Rotten Tomatoes Radio Times review 1934 films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films 1934 adventure films Films directed by Victor Fleming American black-and-white films 1930s English-language films Treasure Island films Films scored by Herbert Stothart American adventure films 1930s American films