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Huckleberry Finn
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Directed by Norman Taurog
Written by
Based on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Dave Abel
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • August 7, 1931 (1931-08-07)
Running time
79 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1 million
Box office$2.5 million

Huckleberry Finn is a 1931 American pre-Code adventure comedy film directed by Norman Taurog, and written by Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt, based on Mark Twain's 1884 novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It stars Jackie Coogan as Tom Sawyer, Mitzi Green as Becky Thatcher, Junior Durkin as Huckleberry Finn, and Jackie Searl as Sid Sawyer.

Plot

Cast

Production

This is an adaptation of the classic novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and is a follow-up to Tom Sawyer (1930). Omitting the entire issue of whether or not Huck ought to turn the slave Jim back in after Jim escapes his owners, it concentrated mostly on the comedy in the novel, and turned Jim into the typical comic "darkie" stereotype of that era.

The film was made as a follow-up to Paramount's Tom Sawyer, which had been released a year earlier with substantially the same cast and became the top-grossing film of 1930.

However, as happened with Tom Sawyer, the 1931 Huckleberry Finn was superseded only eight years later by MGM's far more faithful The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, starring Mickey Rooney as Huck, Rex Ingram as Jim, Walter Connolly as the King, and William Frawley as the Duke.

Reception

According to Leonard Maltin, the film is "charming, but very, very dated". [1]

See also

References

  1. ^ Maltin, Leonard (2010). Classic Movie Guide. New York: Plume. p. 301. ISBN  978-0-452-29577-3.

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