The 10 Best Movie and TV Adaptations of Treasure Island

Long before Jack Sparrow was swigging rum on the Black Pearl or Peter Pan was duking it out with Captain Hook in Neverland, Robert Louis Stevenson had already effectively popularized pirate-based adventures on a massive scale with his 1883 novel Treasure Island. The book tells the tale of an innkeeper’s son named Jim Hawkins, who joins in on an expedition for buried treasure aboard a schooner called the Hispaniola and finds himself pitted against a crew of deadly pirates led by the one-legged Long John Silver.