Tom Sawyer

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Tom Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He appears in three other novels written by Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894), and Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896).

The name may also refer to:

[edit] Film adaptations of the novel

• Tom Sawyer, a 1907 silent film produced by Kalem Studios
• Tom Sawyer, a 1930 film starring Jackie Coogan as Tom
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938 film), a 1938 film featuring Walter Brennan in a major supporting role as Muff Potter. The first Technicolor film version of a Mark Twain novel.
• Tom Sawyer, a 1973 musical film in which Jodie Foster appeared
• Tom Sawyer, a different 1973 film in which Buddy Ebsen appeared
• Tom and Huck, a 1995 film starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Brad Renfro
• Tom Sawyer, an animated film made in 2000 that featured anthropomorphic animal characters

• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film) featured a dramatically different version of the Tom Sawyer character, portrayed by Shane West. In this adaptation, Sawyer is portrayed as having grown up to become a government agent embittered over the loss of his friend and fellow agent Huck Finn (In "behind the scenes" footage contained on the DVD release of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen the writers tell of Sawyer's depiction as a detective in some later Twain novels, notably, Tom Sawyer, Detective as the inspiration for this character's outline). He is taught how to hit targets at a great distance by Allan Quatermain, and develops feelings for Mina Harker, which it is hinted may be reciprocated. The comic version of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" did not feature this character.
• Tom Sawyer no Boken, a 1980 cartoon by Nippon Animation Co, Meisaku and WMT.

[edit] Other meanings

• "Tom Sawyer", a song by the Canadian band Rush
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (2001 Broadway Musical), a two-act Broadway musical written by Ken Ludwig and composed by Don Schlitz
• Tom Sawyer, Baron Sawyer, a British politician and trade unionist
• Tom Sawyer Island is part of Frontierland in Disneyland
• Thomas C. Sawyer, a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Ohio from 1987 to 2003
• Tom Sawyer (Kansas politician).
• "Tom" Sawyer State Park is a state park in Jefferson County, Kentucky
• Thomas Sawyer is the name of an Internet vigilante who got revenge against Amir Massoud Tofangsazan after allegedly being defrauded via eBay.
• Square's Tom Sawyer, a Japanese role-playing game designed by Square for the Nintendo Famicom
• Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a platform game developed and published in 1993 by Seta for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

[edit] See also

• List of characters in the Tom Sawyer series