Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A lost film. Dr. Crawford and his wife with their little daughter, Elsie, are at home amusing themselves with the Scotch collie puppy, Imp, when another doctor is announced and he is shown an article in a newspaper which describes the providential rescue from drowning of the doctor's child by Lassie, the mother of Imp. Two more physician's arrive and announce that they have come to try an experiment with a newly discovered anesthetic. Dr. Crawford has a guinea pig, on which the experiment is to be tried, but it is discovered the animal has died, and the men of medicine are in a quandary. It is finally decided to use Imp, the puppy, for the experiment, despite the mild protest of Elsie.
Release Date1911-07-24
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Charactersd Story
Documentary footage of the author and his two daughters at home.
Release Date1909-08-08
Charactersd Himself
Extremely condensed version of the Mark Twain story of a royal heir and his poor doppelganger trading places.
Release Date1909-08-03
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Charactersd (as Samuel Clemens)
Vote Count1
Shirley Temple's Storybook is an American children's anthology series hosted and narrated by actress Shirley Temple. The series features adaptations of fairy tales like Mother Goose and other family-oriented stories performed by well-known actors, although one episode, an adaptation of The House of the Seven Gables, was meant for older youngsters. Temple's three children made their acting debuts in the last episode of the first season, "Mother Goose".
Release Date1958-01-12
DepartmentWriting
JobBook
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
Tom Sawyer is a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River in the mid 1800s. Along with his best friend Huckleberry Finn, he spends his days ditching school, fishing, climbing trees and having adventures.
Release Date1980-01-06
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count49
Vote Count139
In her first animated musical featuring seven original songs, Barbie comes to life in this modern re-telling of a classic tale of mistaken identity and the power of friendship. Based on the story by Mark Twain.
Release Date2004-09-28
DepartmentWriting
JobWriters' Assistant
Vote Count1508
DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. The DuPont Company also sponsored a weekly half-hour anthology drama series hosted by June Allyson, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. During the Golden Age of Television, DuPont Show of the Month was one of numerous anthology series telecast between 1949 and 1962. Superficially, it resembled Playhouse 90 and other anthologies, but DuPont Show of the Month focused less on contemporary dramas and more on adaptations of literary classics, including Oliver Twist, The Prince and the Pauper, Billy Budd, The Prisoner of Zenda, A Tale of Two Cities and The Count of Monte Cristo.
Release Date1957-09-29
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.
Release Date2013-12-12
DepartmentCrew
JobThanks
Vote Count2272
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him like a king and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves.
Release Date1954-01-07
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count71
Christopher Lee hosts this horror anthology series from Poland with stories from various classic authors.
Release Date1971-10-01
DepartmentWriting
JobShort Story
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
Release Date1938-02-11
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count46
A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1905 auto mechanic, to Arthurian England, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom's politics.
Release Date1949-04-18
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count29
Tom Canty is a poor English boy who bears a remarkable resemblance to Edward, Prince of Wales and son of King Henry VIII. The two boys meet and decide to play a joke on the court by dressing in each other's clothes, but the plan goes awry when they are separated and each must live the other's life.
Release Date1977-06-03
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count51
Charlie is a kid whose archeologist father has made several discoveries while exploring a cave in Colorado. However, Charlie makes a discovery of his own -- the spirit of a long-dead explorer has come back to haunt him until his remains can be recovered and finally buried in a proper place. But Charlie can't manage this task on his own, with his old man being too busy with his work to aide the restless soul. What's a supernaturally-afflicted lad like him to do?
Release Date1995-12-13
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count15
Mischievous Huck Finn is unnerved when his father, reemerging after years away, kidnaps him in an attempt to take away a $600 inheritance from his late mother. Fearing for his life, Huck fakes his own death and escapes. He soon runs into his friend, Jim, a slave fleeing his master. Together, the pair embarks on a raft journey down the Mississippi River, staying ahead of pursuers who blame the slave for Huck's alleged murder.
Release Date1993-04-02
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count191
Tom Sawyer has a head full of pranks and drives when he invents is not just a new adventure, preferably around with his best buddy Huck Finn - much to the chagrin of his Aunt Polly with Tom and his half-brother Sid in the town of St. Petersburg on the Mississippi river.
Release Date2011-11-17
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count49
Long ago in a land with an ailing king, there was a pair of boys who looked exactly alike, a pauper called Mickey and the other, the Crown Prince.
Release Date1990-11-16
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count234
Based on elements from the stories of Mark Twain, this feature-length Claymation fantasy follows the adventures of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher and Huck Finn as they stowaway aboard the interplanetary balloon of Mark Twain. Twain, disgusted with the human race, is intent upon finding Halley's Comet and crashing into it, achieving his "destiny." It's up to Tom, Becky, and Huck to convince him that his judgment is wrong and that he still has much to offer humanity that might make a difference. Their efforts aren't just charitable; if they fail, they will share Twain's fate. Along the way, they use a magical time portal to get a detailed overview of the Twain philosophy, observing the "historical" events that inspired his works.
Release Date1985-03-01
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count100
In the London of 1537, two boys resembling each other exactly meet accidentally and exchange "roles" for a short while. After many adventures, the prince regains his rightful identity and graciously makes his "twin" a ward of the court.
Release Date1962-03-11
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count33
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.
Release Date1937-04-30
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count38
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn live in a small town on the Mississippi River above St. Louis. Tom is raised by his Aunt Polly, with whom he lives together with his brother Sid. Huckleberry, known as Huck, is homeless and does not go to school—his father is an alcoholic and has been missing for some time, with many believing him to be dead. But Tom and Huck are friends—and will remain so, come what may.
Release Date1968-12-01
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count5
A mischievous young boy, Tom Sawyer, witnesses a murder by the deadly Injun Joe. Tom becomes friends with Huckleberry Finn, a boy with no future and no family. Tom has to choose between honoring a friendship or honoring an oath because the town alcoholic is accused of the murder. Tom and Huck go through several adventures trying to retrieve evidence.
Release Date1995-12-22
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count198
Huckleberry Finn is a 15-year-old boy who has had a difficult relationship with his often violent father for a long time. When Dad tried to kidnap him, Huck decides to run away from home, and heads out of town on a raft. Huck is soon joined by Jim, a runaway slave who is no more eager to see his master than Huck is to see his father. As the two friends make their way down the Mississippi, they're faced with a variety of challenges and adventures.
Release Date1974-05-24
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count14
We begin our adventure by the banks of the Mississippi River, where we see life through the eyes of a young boy named Huck Finn. Huck is a resourceful and spirited lad who knows how to survive on his own. He flees his father, and travels with Jim (a runaway black boy). He learns much about life from Jim. Tom Sawyer is a mischevieous adventure hungry boy who has a zest for life. He's a true romantic at heart, but not above a little trickery to get his own way, or to get out of work. Tom's life really starts to become complicated when he meets Huck. Together with Jim, they begin a series of adventures.
Release Date1994-08-26
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count3
The plane of the American pilot Hank Morgan got lost in time. The pilot falls into temporary loop and finds himself at the era of the glorious King Arthur. Here he is destined to meet the legendary knights of the Round Table and the insidious Queen Morgana - the sister of the king, the beautiful Sandy and the wise Wizard. He will find himself in the rags of a slave and in knightly armor, to witness the greatness and death of the kingdom.
Release Date1988-06-06
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count12
Series of television versions of famous folk tales and classic literature.
Release Date1972-09-10
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
An adaptation of the classic, "The Prince and the Pauper" is the retelling of Edward Tudor and young Thomas Canty, two amazing look-alikes caught up in imperial intrigue and scandal. In fleeing from his violent father, Tom stumbles into the palace courtyard, and is seen by young Prince Edward, who takes him in. Each desiring to see what the other's life is like, the boys impulsively switch identities... little knowing what disaster lies ahead at this fault of thought. And soon Thomas becomes a pawn in the hands of Edward's malicious and greedy uncle, who would have the kingdom for himself.
Release Date2000-12-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count13
Small but brave boys search for the treasure, become "pirates", engage in a dangerous battle with the Indian Joe. But, the most important thing in this story is that they learn to be loyal friends and good people.
Release Date1982-03-27
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count3
Vote Count3
Yet another variation on Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee At King Arthur's Court." Here, a computer malfunction causes a science researcher to be sent back in time with her laptop, which she uses to amaze the court.
Release Date1998-11-08
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count106
From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone on his way down the muddy Mississippi.
Release Date1960-07-21
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count34
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.
Release Date2014-10-23
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count36
The classic Twain story "The Prince and the Pauper" gets a modern slant when Prince Edward of Gelfland switches places with Southern California surfer Cash Canty. Both discover a new world of romance, danger, and adventure beyond their wildest dreams.
Release Date1999-12-21
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count8
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder.
Release Date1973-03-15
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count56
Taking place in the 1990's, Huck and his card shark friend, Jim, travel from California to Nevada searching for Huck's long-lost grandpa. Along the way, a deceived card player chases the two across the states with his two, less intelligent, sidekicks.
Release Date1994-02-02
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count3
Huck Finn is a homeless boy because he was abandoned by his father, who left the village for over a year. Although he lives in a barrel and the mother of his little friend Tom Sawyer does not want children to play with him, he is always surrounded by many friends. And it is during one of these games, while he is exploring a cave in search of "pirate treasure" that Huck discovers two robbers who had just looted the village.
Release Date1976-01-02
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count3
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold. Together the two strike a bond of friendship that takes them through harrowing events and thrilling adventures.
Release Date2012-12-20
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count7
Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold. Together the two strike a bond of friendship that takes them through harrowing events and thrilling adventures.
Release Date1975-03-25
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count5
Romantic comedy about an honest Mexican immigrant who struggles without a green card by selling oranges on a street corner. One day a limousine pulls up and he is handed a check for $1,000,000 with instructions that he is to give the check back in 30 days. Initially he uses the check to convince people to extend credit to him. In the meantime he also attracts a woman who is in a dead end relationship with a bossy businessman. At the end of the 30 days, he finds his life in turmoil, the things he got on credit are repossessed, and he is being evicted from his dwelling and being sent back to Mexico.
Release Date1994-05-15
DepartmentWriting
JobShort Story
Vote Count5
A comedic thriller that re-imagines Mark Twain's iconic literary characters of "Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer" as grown men in current day.
Release Date2016-01-15
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count124
Making a delivery to a mysterious mansion in a rainstorm, radio salesman Hank Martin is knocked out when a suit of armor topples on him. Upon awakening, Hank finds himself in the time of King Arthur. At Camelot Castle, Hank uses a cigarette lighter and his skill with a lasso to save himself from being executed as a demon. Hank so impresses Arthur that the king orders him to joust with one of his knights to save the life of Princess Alisande.
Release Date1931-04-06
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count7
A prince meets a young man to whom he bears a striking resemblance. The two exchange places and learn to be better people in the process.
Release Date1971-12-25
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count2
Three friends - Tomás, Hubert and Jozka - are boys growing up in a little town. Tomás lives with his aunt Apolena and uncle Václav. Tomás is a boy with lots of ideas that often end up getting him into trouble not only with his teachers and aunt, but with the other inhabitants of the town as well. He has a crush on his schoolmate Blanka and for her sake he decides to try to get the prize for the best pupil in the school.
Release Date1976-03-19
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count12
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River.
Release Date1939-02-10
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count19
Without a book about the adventures of Tom and his friends Huckleberry Finn and Becky Thatcher, one can not imagine the childhood of a child! The small but brave heroes Tom and Huck search for the treasure, become "pirates", enter into a dangerous battle with the Indian Joe.
Release Date1985-05-26
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count13
A story based on "The Mysterious Stranger" novel by Mark Twain.
Release Date1990-09-30
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count7
Adventurous Huck Finn prefers rafting on the Mississippi River rather than being a part of civilization.
Release Date1986-02-10
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count3
The film version of the same-titled book by Mark Twain. A young printer's apprentice imagines himself back in the days of Guttenberg, helping him to print the Bible. The next thing he knows he has conjured up a young spirit from the future who casts spells over striking printers and causes general mischief.
Release Date1982-10-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous adventures, including running away to be pirates and, being believed drowned, attending their own funeral. The boys also witness a murder and Tom and his friend Becky Thatcher are pursued by the vengeful murderer.
Release Date1930-12-19
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count5
This made-for-TV production originally aired on the "Climax!" show and opened up its second season. Huck and his buddy Tom Sawyer become blood brothers right before Huck takes off down the Mississippi River to try and get away from his abusive father. Along his journey Huck comes across a wide range of characters including The Duke.
Release Date1955-09-01
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count5
Release Date1966-12-25
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
After a horse accident, Karen wakes up to find herself in past Britain, close to Camelot, the famous castle of King Arthur.
Release Date1989-12-18
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count9
A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences like school and shoes, plans to run away. His scapegrace, abusive father intervenes; Tom and black Jim help him escape; and (departing from the novel) all three raft down the Mississippi, where they're joined by two likable rogues and meet pretty orphans Ella and Mary Jane. The latter may change Huck's mind about girls...
Release Date1931-08-07
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count2
A poor boy named Tom Canty and the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.
Release Date1972-02-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count4
The story of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, placed in the years right after the Second World War in Germany. A tale about friendship and courage.
Release Date2012-08-02
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count7
The Hunter family has hit the jackpot--scoring a winning 50 million dollar lottery ticket! But when the ticket is lost on the way to cashing it in, the Hunters face overwhelming obstacles in chasing down the ticket before it is stolen by some unsavory characters in this madcap action comedy.
Release Date2000-01-18
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count4
In the 1840s, two boys get mixed up with an Indian accused of stealing money and rescue a pretty girl who is trapped in a cave.
Release Date1986-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count1
Eddie is a 10-year-old girl who runs away from home with her best friend Ava, a 2-ton circus elephant. They are pursued by everyone from the police to the circus' owner
Release Date1998-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count3
The escapades of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and the runaway slave, Jim, drifting down the Mississippi on a homemade raft, and their encounter with the Duke and his cohort, Dauphin.
Release Date1981-07-09
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count1
The film is a continuation of the story of Tom Sawyer and his friends, the second part of the Romanian screenplay after the famous novel by Mark Twain. The three friends Tom, Huck and Becky continue their adventures full of puzzles and suspense.
Release Date1968-12-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count2
Jim Smiley has a frog that can jump further than anyone else's frog, and Jim becomes obsessed with entering the frog in all of the local jumping-frog contests, not realizing that his obsession is about to cost him his marriage.
Release Date1948-05-06
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count3
During the reign of Oliver Cromwell, Catholic worship is forbidden on pain of death. Three soldiers are arrested as Catholics and condemned to die. Cromwell decides to spare two of them and to determine which should die by chance. The guards bring the first child they meet. Whichever soldier she gives the 'death disc' to shall die. Cromwell is charmed by the girl and gives her his signet ring. By chance the child is the daughter of one of the soldiers and gives the death disc to her father, because she thinks it's pretty. The child is returned home to her mother, who learns of her husband's pending execution and of the power of the ring. She rushes to the place of execution and saves her husband by producing the ring.
Release Date1909-12-02
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count1
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
Release Date1918-03-04
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, two friends in a Mississippi River town, have one adventure after another - including attending their own funeral and being pursued by a murderer.
Release Date1973-03-23
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count2
Most mid-19th-century Mississippi River boys dreamed of occupying that pinnacle of power and glamour, the pilot house of a riverboat. In a riot of local color, this film tells how, unlike many, Sam's dream comes true. A callow teenager, he talks the tough but consummate Horace Bixby into making him his apprentice on the "Paul Jones," eventually following him to the much finer "Aleck Scott." Meanwhile, he is already spinning fantastic yarns to everyone from awe-struck lads ashore, to fellow "cub pilots", to young lady passengers who catch his eye. Things temporarily take a turn for the worse when Bixby must attend a meeting and leave Sam to work under Brown, a dour tyrant with a grudge against him.
Release Date1980-11-24
DepartmentWriting
JobBook
Vote Count1
Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold. Together the two strike a bond of friendship that takes them through harrowing events and thrilling adventures.
Release Date1920-02-29
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count2
A teenaged Mark Twain travels to the American West during the "Gold Rush" days in search of fortune and his destiny.
Release Date2002-03-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
A mysterious stranger descends on the small town of Hadleyburg to teach its deceitful residents a lesson.
Release Date1980-03-17
DepartmentWriting
JobShort Story
Vote Count1
Two pre-teenaged girls attempted to thwart a robbery.
Release Date1985-09-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A modern-day scientist gets teleported to Medieval England in King Arthur's Court! He has to adapt to the current times and tries to make improvements as they come.
Release Date1978-05-23
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Adaptation of the adventures of Tom Sawyer, played by actor Juliancito Bravo.
Release Date1969-04-12
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count8
Silent version of the Twain tale, filmed in Pleasanton, California. A Missouri boy (Jack Pickford) encounters his first love (Clara Horton) and bucks responsibilities to find adventure with his friend, Huck Finn (Robert Gordon).
Release Date1917-12-10
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count8
Mistaken identities make for a remarkable adventure as Tom Canty, a poor beggar boy swaps places with Prince Edwared, the heir to the throne, in this new animated version of this beloved story. With its brilliant CGI animation, all-animal cast of characters and brand-new original songs and music, it's double the fun for audiences of all ages!
Release Date2007-07-31
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Based on the short story of the same name by Mark Twain.
Release Date1982-03-11
DepartmentWriting
JobShort Story
1972 animated adaptation of the classic Mark Twain tale
Release Date1972-11-26
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Soviet adventure comedy film based on Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Release Date1973-08-27
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count11
In the royal castle, Prince Matthias feels like a prisoner. His father forces him to get engaged to Princess Beatrix, whom he does not love. Matthias takes advantage of a chance encounter with the rogue Tomas, who is his identical double. The boys swap clothes and agree to try on each other's lives for a day. In the morning, Matej is wrongly accused of theft and imprisoned. Tomas has to stay in the castle and although he tries to convince the king that he is not the true prince, no one believes him. The two boys must face a world they have never known before, grow up and learn to take responsibility for their decisions. Their reward will be that they both find true love.
Release Date2014-10-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count5
Eve and Adam meet in Eden. It soon becomes apparent that they don’t find each other particularly attractive. But do they have a choice? Writing helps. They each start keeping a diary about this first encounter between two human beings — from very different perspectives, as one might imagine. And as they get on each other’s nerves and recount terrible things about each other, they discover an unexpected new emotion: love.
Release Date2025-01-23
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count1
The adventures and misadventures of Tom and Huck on the Mississippi River in Missouri with their involvement when they fall in with a gang of con artists, take up with a ragtag circus, help a freed slave buy his sister's freedom, and then see a dastardly villain get her.
Release Date1982-02-27
DepartmentWriting
JobCharacters
Vote Count5
Interesting and sometimes funny adaptation of a Mark Twain short story. Hatfield is a carpetbagger who marries the daughter of a prominent plantation owner in order to humiliate him. He mistreats his wife, but she stoically refuses to complain to her father.
Release Date1965-12-31
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Two look-alike boys, one a poor street kid and the other a prince, exchange places to see what the other's life is like.
Release Date1942-12-03
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count2
In 1921, a young man, having read Mark Twain's classic novel of the same title, dreams that he himself travels to King Arthur's court, where he has similar adventures and outwits his foes by means of very modern inventions including motorcycles and nitroglycerine.
Release Date1921-03-13
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count1
A TV movie about Huckleberry Finn, directed by Marcel Cravenne and released in France back in 1967.
Release Date1967-01-28
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
A live television presentation of Rodgers and Hart's 1927 stage musical.
Release Date1955-03-12
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count2
The adventures of a teen-aged boy and his friend, a runaway slave, as they float down the Mississippi River on a raft.
Release Date1984-11-23
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
A slave switches her light-skinned baby with her master's baby. The child grows up raised by whites.
Release Date1916-01-31
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
About a merry, smart boy Tom Soyer, that, testing, as him it seemed to, all facilities, to be good, decided nevertheless to go away from home and become a marine robber.
Release Date1936-01-22
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count1
Release Date1965-12-22
DepartmentWriting
JobShort Story
Vote Count1
When Zomorod Agha dies leaving a huge fortune, the heirs are shocked to learn that Falafel the beggar shall be responsible for giving them their shares after confirming their morality and their worthiness of the money.
Release Date1953-12-07
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
A poor boy named Tom Canty and Edward, the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.
Release Date1915-11-29
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Concept
Vote Count1
Transposing Mark Twain's immortal anti-racist novel to 2017, "Huckleberry Finn: A Close Place" depicts the friendship that develops between a poor Missouri boy and an undocumented African immigrant as they drift down the Mississippi River on a makeshift raft in pursuit of freedom.
Release Date2020-10-19
DepartmentWriting
JobAuthor
Vote Count2
An unhoused Missouri teenager and an undocumented Mauritanian migrant drift down the Mississippi River together on a makeshift raft in pursuit of freedom in this contemporary retelling of Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
A stranger shows up in an American town, promising a reward for the person who once helped him out of trouble.
Release Date1967-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobShort Story
A collection of intimate television short stories based on well-known literary works.
Release Date1968-07-26
DepartmentWriting
JobShort Story
Alexander Korda's early German adaptation of Mark Twain's historical fiction novel about two young boys who are born on the same day and identical in appearance but of very different origin: Edward the Prince of Wales son of Henry VIII and Tom Canty the son of an lowly pauper.
Release Date1920-11-19
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count1
A television musical based on the short story by M. Twain. The King of Siam sends a gift - a white elephant - to the Queen of England. Inspector Blunt is responsible for the animal's safety. However, he has strange desires that are closer to him than his duties...
Release Date1988-07-02
DepartmentWriting
JobShort Story
A young beggar and a young prince, both bored with their lives, decide to switch places and experience the life they long for. The experiment goes haywire, with both boys in danger of being trapped in their surrogate lives.
Release Date1969-10-04
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
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