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Director
  
William Desmond Taylor

Film series
  
Tom Sawyer Film Series

Story by
  
Mark Twain

Country
  
United States

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Genre
  
Comedy, Drama

Screenplay
  
Julia Crawford Ivers

Language
  
English

Writer
  
Mark Twain
,
Julia Crawford Ivers

Release date
  
May 13, 1918

Cast
  
Jack Pickford
(Tom Sawyer),
Robert Gordon
(Huckleberry Finn),
Edythe Chapman
(Aunt Polly),
Clara Horton
(Becky Thatcher),
Helen Gil
(Widow Douglas)

Similar movies
  
Related William Desmond Taylor movies

Huck and Tom is a surviving American comedy drama film directed by William Desmond Taylor and released in 1918. The scenario by Julia Crawford Ivers is derived from the novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Robert Gordon and Jack Pickford reprise the title roles from the 1917 version of Tom Sawyer, a successful adaptation that was also directed by Taylor.

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Plot

As described in a film magazine, while in a graveyard trying an old remedy to get rid of their warts, Tom (Pickford) and Huck (Gordon) witness a murder. At the trial their repetition of the story clears Muff Potter (Bates), an innocent suspect and victim of Injun Joes's (Lanning) plot. Injun Joe escapes to the Painted Cave, where the next day Tom and Becky (Horton) become lost. After a four-day search the missing ones come home and the entrance to the Painted Cave is sealed. Tom tells Judge Thatcher (Burton) that Injun Joe is hiding there. The entrance to the cave is opened and the dead body of the murderer is brought out. Tom and Huck become the possessors of a treasure they found, and with this fortune they plan on becoming great and fierce robbers.

Cast

  • Jack Pickford as Tom Sawyer
  • Robert Gordon as Huck Finn
  • George Hackathorne as Sid Sawyer
  • Alice Marvin as Mary Sawyer
  • Edythe Chapman as Aunt Polly
  • Frank Lanning as Injun Joe
  • Clara Horton as Becky Thatcher
  • Tom Bates as Muff Potter
  • Helen Gilmore as Widow Douglas
  • Antrim Short as Joe Harper
  • Jane Keckley as Mrs. Thatcher
  • John Burton as Judge Thatcher

    • Reception

    Upon its March 1918 release, Huck and Tom received lukewarm reviews. Variety called it "acceptable" and Photoplay described it as "not so fascinating, being an unbelievable mixture of boyish fancy and Brady melodrama."

    Like many American films of the time, Huck and Tom was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required cuts of, in Reel 1, the stabbing of a man in the back, robbing the dead man, in Reel 2, a vision of the stabbing of the man, and, in Reel 4, two scenes of Injun Joe prying open a window.

    Preservation status

    This film is preserved at Archives du Film du CNC, Bois d'Arcy Archive.

    References

    Huck and Tom Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Huck and Tom IMDb


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