Tom Sawyer (1917 film)

Tom Sawyer

Theatrical poster to Tom Sawyer (1917)
Directed by William Desmond Taylor
Produced by Jesse L. Lasky
Written by Mark Twain (novel)
Julia Crawford Ivers (screenplay)
Starring Jack Pickford
Robert Gordon
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) December 10, 1917
Running time 59 min / 44 min (2000 alternate version)
Language English

Tom Sawyer is a 1917 Paramount Pictures silent film starring Jack Pickford, Robert Gordon, and Clara Horton; it is based on Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

This version contains its more homespun situations - the whitewashing episode, Tom's courtship of Becky Thatcher, his decision to run away with his pals Huck Finn and Joe Harper, and their "return from the dead" at their own funeral, however it leaves out the murder committed by Injun Joe and his death at Tom's hands.[1]

The film was re-released in 2000 by the Library of Moving Images[2], and again in 2006 by Unknown Video.[3]

Contents

Cast

Actor Role
Jack Pickford Tom Sawyer
Robert Gordon Huck Finn
Helen Gilmore Widow Douglas
Clara Horton Becky Thatcher
Edythe Chapman Aunt Polly
Antrim Short Joe Harper
George Hackathorne Sid Sawyer

See also

References

  1. ^ "Tom Sawyer". http://www.starpulse.com/movie/Tom_Sawyer/V114022/0/2/. Retrieved 2007-07-14. 
  2. ^ Thomson, Dave (2000-08-10). "Mark Twain Forum - review of rereleased Tom Sawyer (1917)". http://twainweb.net/reviews/1917-TS.html. Retrieved 2007-07-14. 
  3. ^ "Tom Sawyer". "Unknown Video". http://www.unknownvideo.com/tomsawyer.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-14. 

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