The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)

Directors

Norman Taurog

Cast

Tommy Kelly, Jackie Moran, Ann Gillis, May Robson, Walter Brennan, Victor Jory

The story

The United Artists release includes most of the sequences familiar to readers of the book, including the fence-whitewashing episode; Tom and Huckleberry Finn's attendance at their own funeral, after the boys, who were enjoying an adventure on a remote island, are presumed dead; the murder trial of local drunkard Muff Potter; and Tom and Becky Thatcher's flight through a cave as they try to escape Injun Joe, who is revealed to be the real killer.

Genres

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