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Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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It is and it isn't, but it's still Great!!!
I'm simply dumbfounded that a classic novel such as this, and the most faithful adaptation to movies could exist all this time without a single opinion being written! I'll wager that Mark Twain is spinning in his grave -- wherever he's buried -- over this!
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) [VHS]
Release Date: 1991-07-25
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Adventures of Tom Sawyer [VHS]
The 1938 version of Adventures of Tom Sawyer appears to be producer David O. Selznick's dry run for Gone with the Wind, what with its similarities in period, costumes, color scheme and production design (both films shared the services of the great Hollywood art director William Cameron Menzies). Selected from hundreds of applicants, Tommy Kelly is visually perfect as Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer though his acting varies from scene to scene. Jackie Moran is the laconic, pipe-smoking Huck Finn. Never forcing its pace, the film manages to include most of Twain's classic sequences, including the fence- whitewashing episode, Tom's rescue of Becky Thatcher (Anne Gillis) from the wrath of their schoolmaster (Olin Howlin), Tom and Huck's "death and resurrection" after the boys briefly skipped town for an idyll on a remote island, the murder trial of town drunk Muff Potter (Walter Brennan) and ultimately unmasking of the vicious Injun Joe (Victor Jory) as the real killer, and of course the chilling climax in the cave, wherein Tom protects Becky from the fugitive Injun Joe.
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| Stars | Walter Brennan | |
| Actors | Charles Richman | |
| Available Formats | VHS | |
| Directors | Norman Taurog | |
| UPC | 013131037937 | |
| Genre | Action/Adventure | |
| Subgenre | Buddies • Kids Adventure | |
| MPAA Rating | Not Rated | |
| Release Date | 1938 | |
| Running Time | 1hr 33min | |
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| Screenwriter | John V.A. Weaver | |
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