Huckleberry Finn (1974)

Directed by

J. Lee Thompson

Genre

musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 58m

Rated

G

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young boy and a runaway slave travel down the Mississippi River on a raft. They encounter various adventures and characters along the way.

lightheartedwhimsicalfamily-friendlyoptimisticmusicalnostalgicleisurelywarm

What happens

Huckleberry Finn is a 1974 musical film version of Mark Twain's 1884 novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The movie was produced by Reader's Digest and Arthur P. Jacobs (known for his role in the production of the Planet of the Apes films) and directed by J. Lee Thompson. It stars Jeff East as Huckleberry Finn and Paul Winfield as Jim. The film contains original music and songs, such as "Freedom" and "Cairo, Illinois", by the Sherman Brothers: Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman. This film followed the previous year's highly successful Tom Sawyer, based on Twain's 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, also produced and written by the same team and starring East in the role of Huckleberry Finn. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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