Based on R.L. Stevenson's classic tale, especially aimed at boy readers. At one level, it's a reluctant buddy story between a devious, sometimes piratical, one-legged rascal(Long John Silver) and a naïve imaginative boy(Jim Hawkins) who worships the charismatic knowledgeable man. It's Jim who found the map to Captain Flint's buried treasure chest, and it's Silver who schemes to steal the map from the gentleman adventurers allied with Jim, and eventually the treasure as well as the ship that takes all to the island. Silver serves as cook aboard the ship, and was given the honor of selecting most of the crew, who will serve as his henchmen. Eventually, Jim overhears Silver talking to his gang about his plan of action, and relays this information to the gentlemen adventurers. Later, on the island, at one point, the other mutineers want to kill Jim, but Silver intercedes. On the voyage home, in reciprocation, Jim releases Silver from custody, so that he may sail off into the unknown, and avoid the hangman's noose that the gentlemen adventures had in store for him.....Wallace Berry makes an appealing charismatic Long John, but it's inevitable that he will be compared with Robert Newton, who took the same role in the 1954 Disney remake. Newton's rascally, but charismatic, Long John is more distinctive from Berry's version, but Berry is also very good. I would say hope to catch both versions some day. Of course, kids these days usually demand color movies, which is where Disney's version shines....Other charismatic characters include Lionel Barrymore as Billy Bones, who supplies the treasure map among his post-humus things., William Mung, as blind Pew, Charles McNunington as Black Dog, and ,of course, skeletal Ben Gun.