Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn investigate a suspicious graveyard murder and more in this musical version of Mark Twain's novel.Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn investigate a suspicious graveyard murder and more in this musical version of Mark Twain's novel.Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn investigate a suspicious graveyard murder and more in this musical version of Mark Twain's novel.
- Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 5 nominations total
- Joe Jefferson
- (as Kevin Jefferson)
- Director
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Did you know
- TriviaThe 'Julia Belle Swain' is a steam-powered stern wheeler operating out of La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA as of 2015. Designed and built in 1971 by Capt. Dennis Trone, the 'Julia Belle' was the last boat built by Dubuque Boat & Boiler Works of Dubuque, Iowa. The boat's steam engines were built in 1915 by the Gillett and Eaton Company and originally installed on the central wheel ferryboat City of Baton Rouge. The engines have logged well over a million miles. The steamer was featured prominently in this movie (as the "River Queen") and in its sequel Huckleberry Finn (1974).
- GoofsInjun Joe leaps out of the courtroom window and lands on the ground. When he gets up and starts to run, the covering used to hide whatever soft surface he landed on flips up for a second.
- Quotes
Becky Thatcher: It's so nice being engaged.
Tom Sawyer: Why, sure. When me and Amy Lawrence was engaged, we used to go...
Becky Thatcher: Oh, Tom! So, I'm not the first one you've been engaged to. Philanderer!
Tom Sawyer: What?
Becky Thatcher: Well, that's what you are.
Tom Sawyer: Yeah, but what does it mean?
Becky Thatcher: I'm not sure. But, even if I did know I wouldn't tell you!
[Becky Thatcher began to walking away from him]
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Boys (2009)
This is one story that when filmed is rarely deviated from. I guess it's too well known and lovers of Mark Twain wouldn't stand for it.
Whitaker and East play the mischievous adolescents from Hannibal, Missouri who are just contributing to everyone's delinquency. Huckleberry Finn seems incorrigible since all he wants to do is fish and swim. And Celeste Holm playing Tom Sawyer's Aunt Polly who is raising Tom with two of her own kids and the widow is just mighty put out by them.
Among the grownup population is Warren Oates who is a perfect fit for Muff Potter, Tom and Huck's best friend and whose raffish ways they admire. Truth be told Oates is a lowdown character who earns an extra drinking dollar or three as a graverobber for Dr. Richard Eastham.
When Eastham is stabbed to death on one of those grave robbing expeditions Oates is arrested and that sets in motion the main plot of Twain's story.
The Shermans wrote a serviceable score for Tom Sawyer. Of course it's nothing like the score they wrote for Mary Poppins. They were nominated for the overall musical score though no individual songs were recognized. Tom Sawyer also got Oscar nominations for Costume Design and Film Editing.
The story has been good family reading and viewing for more than a century and this film is no exception.
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- Jan 18, 2014
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- A Musical Adaptation of Mark Twain's 'Tom Sawyer'
- Filming locations
- Meramac Caverns, Stanton, Missouri, USA(cave scenes)
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- Runtime1 hour 43 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1