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Tom Sawyer, Detective (1938)

Tom Sawyer, Detective poster
Directed by
Louis King
Genre
mystery film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 08m
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn investigate a murder and a diamond theft. They try to clear an innocent man by finding the real culprit.

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What happens

Tom Sawyer, Detective is a 1938 American mystery comedy film directed by Louis King, written by Robert Yost, Lewis R. Foster and Stuart Anthony, and starring Billy Cook, Donald O'Connor, Porter Hall, Phil Warren, Janet Waldo, Elisabeth Risdon and William Haade. It was released on December 23, 1938, by Paramount Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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