• 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