He is a minor character, while another pirate named Scroop (voiced by Michael Wincott) fills the role of directly threatening Jim.
In Disney's 2002 animated movie Treasure Planet, Hands appears as a giant four-armed pirate voiced by Mike McShane.Jean-François Stévenin in the 1985 version.Aldo Sambrell in the 1972 live-action version.Though believed to have been killed in the first film, a return expedition to Treasure Island finds Israel Hands alive. Geoffrey Keen in the 1950 version and Rod Taylor in its 1954 sequel film, Long John Silver.Douglass Dumbrille in the 1934 version.
Joseph Singleton in the 1920 silent version.
Modern portrayals Films and TV series based on Treasure Island Israel Hands features in the children's adventure book Kintana and the Captain's Curse by Susan Brownrigg (Uclan Publishing, July 2021). Hands engages in a prolonged battle with Jim Hawkins before being shot by the boy.
However, he is described as the late Captain Flint's gunner and no mention is made of Blackbeard. Israel Hands appears as a character in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island and media based on it, in which he is the Hispaniola 's coxswain and one of Long John Silver's pirates. Wyeth, 1911, for Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. However, in Captain Charles Johnson's 1724 A General History of the Pyrates, Hands is said to have died a beggar in London. What happened to Hands after this is not known for certain. for some time before the giving of the Evidence kept in prison under the Terrors of Death a most severe prosecution. Hesikia Hands master of Capt Thaches Sloop Adventure seems to sweare possitively in his Depossition that the sd Thache went from Ocacoch Inlet at his returne into this Country from his last voyage with a present to the sd Tobias Knights house when by the same deposition acknowledgth that to be out of the reach of his knoledge he being all the time at the sd Inlet which lyes at above thirty leagues distance from house and further the Tobias Knight doth pray your Honours to observe that the aforsd Hesikias Hands was. The minutes of the North Carolina Governor's Council for state: In exchange for a pardon, Hands testified against corrupt North Carolina officials with whom Teach had consorted. Following his capture, he and fifteen others were taken to Williamsburg, Virginia, to stand trial. However, he was unable to escape the roundup of pirates in Bath that followed Blackbeard's death. At the time Hands was in Bath, North Carolina, recuperating from his permanently disabling pistol wound. On 22 November 1718 Teach was killed by troops dispatched from Virginia and led by Maynard. Hands asked Teach for his reasons, whereupon Teach remarked that, "if he did not now and then kill one of them, they would forget who he was." Ĭaptain Charles Johnson wrote that Hands was shot in the knee when Teach fired at another of his crew, missing him but striking Hands. Teach, Hands and Stede Bonnet then took approximately half the pirates, marooning the rest, and set sail for Ocracoke. But the Adventure also grounded and was abandoned. He requested assistance from Hands with the Adventure in an effort to kedge the Queen Anne's Revenge off the bar. Later, in June 1718, Teach ran his flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, aground at Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina. Blackbeard then made Israel Hands captain of the Adventure and began sailing for North Carolina. Also on board was Edward Robinson, the ship's gunner, who would later be involved in the Battle of Cape Fear River. On April 4 or 5th of 1718, at Turneffe Atoll, Blackbeard captured the ten gun log cutting sloop Adventure and forced captain Herriot to join him. During the winter of 1717–1718 Blackbeard harassed shipping to and from the port of Vera Cruz, Mexico and traversing the Bay of Honduras. Hands' first historical mention was in 1718, when Blackbeard gave him command of David Herriot's ship Adventure after Herriot was captured by Teach in March 1718.