Treasure Island

Name: Treasure Island
Director: Vladimir Vaynshtok
Genre: Adventure, Family
Released: 1937
Duration: 1 h 33 min
Cast: Klavdiya Pugachyova, Mikhail Klimov, Osip Abdulov, Nikolai Cherkasov, Vladimir Yershov

1937 Adventure Family 93 minutes Directed by Vladimir Vaynshtok

About Treasure Island

English rebels hunt Captain Flint's treasure so they can buy weapons. The Jim Hawkins of Stevenson's novel is a young woman named Jenny, and the hunt is tied to an Irish rising against the British. The year on this file is 1937. English Wikipedia and Wikidata date the release to 1938.

Cast & crew

More about Treasure Island

Vladimir Vaynshtok directed and co-wrote with Oleg Leonidov. The Russian title is Остров сокровищ. An English-language version was directed by David Bradley. Wikidata's narrative location is Ireland.

Themes

a treasure used to buy guns
Jenny in Jim Hawkins's place
an Irish rising
Jenny
Flint
treasure
Cherkasov
Stevenson

Look

Mikhail Kirillov photographed it.

Music

Nikita Bogoslovsky wrote the music.

Preservation

A Commons transfer under the Russian title is online.

Notes

Osip Abdulov, Mikhail Klimov, and Nikolai Cherkasov are billed. Klavdiya Pugachyova leads the catalog cast.
The picture is one of several British novels filmed in the Soviet Union in this period, with the politics of the book rewritten.

Scenes

The map is followed so the gold can arm a rebellion, not so a boy can go home rich.

Influenced by

Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)