This may be considered as the best film version of Robert Louis Stevenson's best selling book ever, not just as a story but with the actor playing Long John Silver. You probably know the story, but here it is anyway. Jim Hawkins (Bobby Driscoll, who voiced Peter Pan) is given a treasure map from Captain Billy Bones (Finlay Currie) that used to belong to Captain Flint. He takes this map to Squire Trelawney (Walter Fitzgerald) and Dr. Livesey (Denis O'Dea), and this excites them to start a journey towards Treasure Island. Travelling on the Hispanola run by Captain Smollett (Basil Sydney), Jim was trusted to guard the map. Little does everyone know that there is a traitor among them, the best actor for Long John Silver, an almost always drunk Robert Newton. So they find the island, eventually find the treasure and Silver rows away carrying thousands in gold coins. Also starring Geoffrey Wilkinson as Ben Gunn, John Laurie as Blind Pew and Francis De Wolff as Black Dog. Good!
Review of Treasure Island
