Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1920)

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There could be only one "Treasure Island," of course. This Artcraft picture is Maurice Tourneur's "Treasure Island." He has maintained much of the charm of Robert Louis Stevenson's magic words in the atmosphere of the picture. But the plot — aside from a general semblance to that of the classic pirate story — is Mr. Tourneur's own. It might be said that he has been very free in his translation of "Treasure Island" from literature to the screen. It is Mr. Tourneur's version which suffers. He has juggled the plot and has introduced a great deal of action of his own — some of which is very ingenuous. But in attempting to paint the lily, he has cheapened it by more than one tawdry stroke. Nevertheless he has made a very entertaining story of a hunt for buried treasure. Tourneur's reputation is largely based on a genius for artistic detail. Except for occasional slips, his genius works wonders in this picture of old England, pirates, sailing vessels and powdered wigs. Such scenes, such sellings, such a Jim Hawkins! Where is there a player of boy's parts who could have endowed the role of Jim with such a delightful, fiercely boyishness as Shirley Mason? The director's choice of Miss Mason for the boy here, might be called another inaccuracy in the translation, but it is one we do not mind. Heaven forbid a motion picture production without a woman. Charles Ogle, as "Long John Silver"— a considerable tamed and much less changeable and oily villain than the original due to the change in plot and limitations of the screen, — is another candidate for honorable mention — as was the entire admirable cast. THE BEGGAR PRINCE— Ha worth Some producers just can't be happy unless they have a mythical kingdom or two in a current production. You would think they had run out of real-life stories, whereas they have scarcely sampled them. 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