The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985)

Directed by

Will Vinton

Genre

fantasy film, steampunk film

Country

Germany, United States

Runtime

1h 26m

Rated

G

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 106 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Mark Twain and three children from his stories travel by airship to meet Halley's Comet. Along the way they encounter characters and scenes from Twain's writing.

whimsicaldreamlikeinventiveslow-pacedphilosophicalnostalgicuneventhought-provokingclaymation

What happens

The Adventures of Mark Twain (released as Comet Quest in the United Kingdom) is a 1985 American independent stop-motion claymation fantasy film directed by Will Vinton and starring James Whitmore. It received a limited theatrical release in May 1985 and was released on DVD in January 2006 and again as a collector's edition in 2012 on DVD and Blu-ray. The film features a series of vignettes extracted from several of Mark Twain's works, woven together by a plot that follows Twain's attempts to keep his "appointment" with Halley's Comet. Twain and three children, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher, travel on an airship to various adventures, encountering characters from Twain's stories along the way. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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