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Huckleberry Finn (1939)
Director: Richard Thorpe
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Disappointingly routine follow up to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, prosaically shot (in black-and-white) with none of the care lavished on the earlier film, despite extensive use oflocations. With the characters stuck in cliché (Connolly and Frawley labouring for comic effect as the riverboat conmen, Ingram in the Uncle Tom bit as the runaway slave), the leisurely adventures - though entertaining enough, thanks largely to a subdued and admirable Rooney - seem to roll by as sluggishly as ol' man river.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Richard Thorpe
Producer: Joseph L Mankiewicz
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Walter Connolly, William Frawley, Rex Ingram, Minor Watson, Jo Ann Sayers, Elisabeth Risdon, Victor Kilian full cast
Genre(s): Children's
Duration: 91 mins
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