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 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.
…Treasure Island has spawned adaptations across practically all types of visual media, but when the novel officially became public domain in 1944, it became an even more popular source of inspiration for movies and, later, television shows. While there have been a number of big- and small-screen adaptations of Treasure Island over the years, from faithful retellings to more loose interpretations, here we'll just focus on the 10 best of all time.
