Tom Sawyer (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Literature 2 Adaptations of the character by other authors 3 Film 4 Stage 5 Music 6 People 7 Geography 8 Computer Games 9 Other uses

[edit] Literature

Tom Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). For a character profile, see Tom Sawyer.

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).
• Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894).
• Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896).

[edit] Adaptations of the character by other authors

• Tom Sawyer, Avenger (2000) by T. W. Fuller.

[edit] Film

• Tom Sawyer (1907 film), a 1907 silent film produced by Kalem Studios
• Tom Sawyer (1917 film), a 1917 silent produced by Paramount Pictures, directed by William Desmond Taylor, and starring Jack Pickford.
• Tom Sawyer (1930 film), 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 (1947 film), a Soviet Union version, directed by Lazar Frenkel and Gleb Zatvornitsky
• Tom Sawyer (1973 film), a 1973 musical film in which Jodie Foster appeared
• Tom Sawyer (1973 TV film), a 1973 made for TV film in which Buddy Ebsen appeared
• Tom Sawyer (1984 film), a Canadian claymation version produced by Hal Roach studios
• Tom and Huck, a 1995 film starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Brad Renfro
• Tom Sawyer (2000 film), an animated film that featured anthropomorphic animal characters

[edit] Stage

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (musical), a 2001 Broadway musical written by Ken Ludwig and composed by Don Schlitz
• "Tom Sawyer", an American Legend with Music
• "Adventures of Tom Sawyer", an American Legend brought to life
• "Paintin' the Fence", a Tom Sawyer mini musical

[edit] Music

• Tom Sawyer (song), a song by the Canadian band Rush
• A cover from the original Tom Sawyer song, made by the New York band Mindless Self Indulgence.

[edit] People

• Tom Sawyer, Baron Sawyer, a British politician and trade unionist
• Thomas C. Sawyer, a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Ohio from 1987 to 2003
• Tom Sawyer (Kansas politician), a politician
• Tom Sawyer (TV writer), a writer for various TV series, including Murder She Wrote
• Tom Sawyer (rapcore), a member of rapcore group Critical Bill

[edit] Geography

• Tom Sawyer Island, part of Frontierland in the Disneyland park in Anaheim, California
• "Tom" Sawyer State Park, a state park in Jefferson County, Kentucky

[edit] Computer Games

• Square's Tom Sawyer, a Japanese role-playing game designed by Square for the Nintendo Famicom
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (video game), a platform game developed and published in 1993 by Seta for the Nintendo Entertainment System

[edit] Other uses

• Tom Sawyer no Boken, a 1980 cartoon by Nippon Animation Co, Meisaku and WMT.
• 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, with whom he forges a father-son kind of bond, and harbors romantic feelings for Mina Harker, although she does not reciprocate. The comic version of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" did not feature this character, or any other characters of American origin.