| Huckleberry Finn | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | William Desmond Taylor |
| Written by | Julia Crawford Ivers (scenario) |
| Based on | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain |
| Produced by | Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky William Desmond Taylor |
| Starring | Lewis Sargent Martha Mattox Esther Ralston Howard Ralston |
| Cinematography | Frank E. Garbutt |
Production company | Famous Players–Lasky / Artcraft |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 7 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Huckleberry Finn is a surviving American silent dramatic rural film from 1920, based on Mark Twain's 1884 classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It was produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. William Desmond Taylor directed Huckleberry Finn, as he had the 1917 film version of Tom Sawyer, using a scenario written by Julia Crawford Ivers, who also had been the writer for Tom Sawyer.[1]
It was the first version of the story entirely entrusted to a youth cast. Lewis Sargent (Huck) and Gordon Griffith (Tom) were child actors who already had a long and successful career and were well known to the public.[2]
- ^ "Huckleberry Finn (1920)". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved December 21, 2016.
- ^ Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, pp. 21, 30-32.