Tom Sawyer (1973 film)

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Tom Sawyer
Directed by	Don Taylor
Produced by	Arthur P. Jacobs
Written by	Robert B. Sherman, Richard M. Sherman, Mark Twain
Starring	Johnny Whitaker Jodie Foster Warren Oates
Music by	Richard M. Sherman Robert B. Sherman John Williams
Cinematography	Frank Stanley
Editing by	Marion Rothman
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	(USA) March 14, 1973 (Denmark) December 26, 1973
Running time	104 min.
Country	U.K. / U.S.A.
Language	English
Followed by	Huckleberry Finn
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Tom Sawyer (1973) was a popular film version of the Mark Twain boyhood adventure story, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It starred Johnny Whitaker as Tom Sawyer, Jodie Foster as Becky Thatcher and Jeff East as Huckleberry Finn. The movie was produced by Reader's Digest. Along with the Twain story, the film was also a musical, with screenplay and songs by the "Sherman Brothers," aka Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman. Charlie Pride performed the opening tune "River Song".

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1. "Tom Sawyer"
2. "River Song"
3. "How Come?"
4. "Gratifaction"
5. "If'n I Was God"
6. "A Man's Gotta Be (What He's Born To Be)"
7. "Hannibal, Mo(Zour-Ee)"
8. "Freebootin'"
9. "Aunt Polly's Soliloquy"