The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985 film)
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| The Adventures of Mark Twain | |
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| Directed by | Will Vinton |
| Produced by | Will Vinton |
| Written by | Mark Twain Susan Shadburne |
| Starring | James Whitmore Gary Krug Chris Ritchie Carol Edelman John Morrison Will Vinton Gary Thompson |
| Music by | Billy Scream |
| Editing by | Kelley Baker Michael Gall Ed Geis Skeets McGrew Will Vinton |
| Distributed by | Atlantic Releasing |
| Release date(s) | March, 1985 |
| Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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The Adventures of Mark Twain, released in the UK as Comet Quest, is a 1985 stop motion animated film directed by Will Vinton (best known for "The California Raisins" animation). After many years in television syndication, it was released on DVD in January 2006. The film features a series of vignettes extracted from several of Mark Twain's works, built around a plot that features Twain's attempts to keep his "appointment" with Halley's Comet. The concept was inspired by a famous quote by the author:
- "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"
Included are sketches taken from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Mysterious Stranger, The Damned Human Race, Injun Joe (briefly), The Diary of Adam and Eve (Letters from the Earth), Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven and a rendering of Twain's first story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.
A scene from the movie is often posted on the internet, sometimes without attribution as to where it came from. The scene is present on the DVD release, and shows the children meeting Satan[1] (taken from The Mysterious Stranger)
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