It was something to see him wedge the foot of the crutch against a bulkhead, and propped against it, yielding to every movement of the ship, get on with his cooking like someone safe ashore. By leaving a question mark over his fate, we can dream of meeting him ourselves – and perhaps getting caught up in treasure hunts of our own. Long John Silver or Barbecue, as the men called him Aboard ship he carried his crutch by a lanyard round his neck, to have both hands as free as possible. Animal Treasure Island (1971), an anime film directed by Hiroshi Ikeda and written by Takeshi Iijima and Hiroshi Ikeda with story consultation by famous animator Hayao Miyazaki . and parrot, in particular, have greatly contributed to the image of the pirate in popular. Treasure Island (1971), a Soviet (Lithuanian) film starring Boris Andreyev as Long John Silver, with a score by Alexei Rybnikov. ORIGINAL 1920s TRADE - ADVERTISING CARD. Long John Silver is a very complex and self-contradictory character. Novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. He is very disloyal, shifting sides so frequently that we cannot be sure of his true affiliations. The Treasure Island quotes below are all either spoken by Long John Silver or refer to Long John Silver. Treasure Island's open-endedness invites the reader to imagine future adventures using the colorful character of Long John Silver as a stand-in. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: ). He is cunning and mendacious, hiding his true intentions from Squire Trelawney while posing as the ship’s genial cook. The most colourful and complex. IT WAS PRINTED IN THE 1920s.