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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – 1939 Thorpe
- I’m not IMDB’ing what else
Richard Thorpe directed by this is a solid adaptation of Twain with the perfect
casting (even if he’s actually 19 years old) of Mickey Rooney as the
titular hero
- Rooney is smooth-talking, mischievous,
charming—with his barefeet and pipe- an ideal Huckleberry
- A very nice
tracking shot in a teacher giving her class a warning about being like
Huckleberry in a film that is otherwise directed in a very utilitarian
fashion by Thorpe
- A yarn-
very entertaining and easy to watch 91 minutes
- It is
narrative brilliance to put these two snake-oil salesman here (Walter
Connolly as The King and William Frawley as the Duke) next to our
protagonist to swing and secure our alliances
- Recommend—but
on the fringe of the archives– not near the top 10 of 1939
Drake2019-12-30T15:26:36+00:00
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@m– whoa– masterpiece huh? That’s high praise. Where are the critics wrong do you think? I have not seen it yet but I plan to. I’m shooting for Friday.
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