trial for his crimes, threatens Gunn and steals a gig, sailing off to freedom. The rest take their treasure home, and Jim vows never to return to the cursed island. Cast Charlton Heston as Long John Silver Christian Bale as Jim Hawkins Oliver Reed as Billy Bones Christopher Lee as Blind Pew Richard Johnson as Squire Trelawney Julian Glover as Dr Livesey Isla Blair as Mrs Hawkins Clive Wood as Captain Smollet Nicholas Amer as Ben Gunn John Abbott as Joyce James Cosmo as Redruth James Coyle as Morgan Michael Halsey as Israel Hands Michael Thoma as Hunter Pete Postlethwaite as George Merry Robert Putt as Job Anderson John Benfield as Black Dog Richard Beale as Mr Arrow Brett Fancy as Young Tom Steven Mackintosh as Dick Bill Sloan as Scarface Production Treasure Island was filmed in 1989 on location in Cornwall, England, in Jamaica, and also at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England. The replica ship Bounty II was used as the fictional Hispaniola on film. It was originally constructed for the film Mutiny on The Bounty, and was set to be destroyed at the end of the film but Marlon Brando protested and the ship was kept intact. It sank off the coast of the Carolinas during Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. Critical reception According to Allmovie, Charlton Heston "plays the character of Long John Silver as written: a cold, crafty, cunning rogue, by turns charming and deadly, but never to be underestimated" and, unlike other filmed versions of the story, the movie "adheres with utter fidelity to the Stevenson novel". However, Tom Shales of The Washington Post called the film "a dreary and confused new production" with an "embarrassingly poor performance of Charlton Heston as Long John Silver, a laborious mistake... one of the most humorless hulks who ever stood before a camera..." Home media The film was released on VHS and Laserdisc. It was released on DVD on September 27, 2011. Box office It made £306,083 at the UK box office. See also Charlton Heston filmography Notes External links 1990 television films 1990 films 1990s adventure films Treasure Island films British adventure films Films directed by Fraser Clarke Heston Films shot in Cornwall Films shot in Devon Films shot in Jamaica TNT Network original films 1990s English-language films American adventure films 1990s American films 1990s British films