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Huckleberry Finn

Based On the book by Mark Twain

Huckleberry Finn is a surviving American silent dramatic rural film from 1920, based on Mark Twain's 1884 classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It was produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. William Desmond Taylor directed Huckleberry Finn, as he had the 1917 film version of Tom Sawyer, using a scenario written by Julia Crawford Ivers, who also had been the writer for Tom Sawyer. It was the first version of the story entirely entrusted to a youth cast.

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Release date:
February 22, 1920
Cast:
Lewis Sargent, Katherine Griffith, George H. Reed, Gordon Griffith, Frank Lanning
Country:
United States
Language:
English
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Book vs Film

Cover of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Book · 1884

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain
Poster for Huckleberry Finn
The Film · 1920

Huckleberry Finn

William Desmond Taylor

★ 6.4 / 10 125 votes · IMDb

Reached the screen 36 years after publication.

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