Mark TwainFilmography

A Knight in Camelot

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Michael York, Ian Richardson

Synopsis: In this romantic fantasy adventure, a lady scientist's experiment whisks her back to King Arthur's court. While there, the plucky lass proves that modern women are as tough as medieval men, and she soon becomes the mythical king's most favored knight. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Tom and Huck

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Brad Renfro, Eric Schweig, Charles Rocket, Amy Wright

Synopsis: This Disney live-action film is a very loose adaptation of Mark Twain's two novels about boyhood friends in Hannibal, MO, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn which omits some of the darker themes and undertones in the original books. Television star Jonathan Taylor Thomas Read More

The Prince and the Pauper

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Philip Sarson, James Purefoy, Jenny McCracken, John Judd

Synopsis: The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain's novel about adventure and intrigue in the court of Henry VIII, has been adapted countless times for films and television. In 1996, a six-part miniseries version was seen in the United Kingdom. As ever, the story was predicated upon the astonishing Read More

A Kid in King Arthur's Court

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: This comedy offers yet another sanitized and very loose adaptation of Mark Twain's dark satire A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. This time, the story centers on Calvin Fuller, a nerdy young adolescent living in Reseda. The gangly, unsure youth is first seen standing at bat, ready for yet another Read More

Prince for a Day

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Joey Lawrence, Richard Belzer, Khrystyne Haje

Synopsis: In yet another modern-dress version of The Prince and the Pauper, Joey Lawrence plays Ricky Prince, a famous pop star who has grown tired of the spotlight and the pressures of fame. Ricky makes the aquaintance of Ralph Bitondo (also played by Joey Lawrence), a pizza delivery boy who looks almost Read More

A Million to Juan

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Paul Rodriguez, Polly Draper, Pepe Serna, Bert Rosario, Jonathan Hernandez

Synopsis: This comedy, set in the barrios East L.A. is loosely based upon Mark Twain's parable The Million Pound Bank Note. The new version tells the tale of Juan Lopez a nice, but uneducated hombre trying to earn enough money to support his little boy. Though Juan was born in the States, he lacks proper Read More

The Adventures of Huck Finn

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Elijah Wood, Courtney Vance, Robbie Coltrane, Jason Robards, Jr., Ron Perlman

Synopsis: This eighth adaptation of the timeless Mark Twain novel casts Elijah Wood as Huckleberry Finn, the half-literate son of a drunk who runs away from home and follows the Mississippi River with an escaped slave named Jim (Courtney S. Vance). Along the way, the duo encounter adventures with colorful Read More

An American Summer

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Michael Landes, Brian Austin Green, Joanna Kerns, Amber Susa

Synopsis: In this youthful drama, Tom, a 14- year-old who's parents have just divorced, is abruptly uprooted from his wealthy Chicago home and sent to the strange land of LA to live in the far-out beach bungalow of his aunt, an aging hippie still stuck in a by-gone era. He is unhappy with the new Read More

Prince and the Pauper

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: The star of this animated 23-minute version of Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper is Mickey Mouse...and Mickey Mouse. The bare bones of Twain's mistaken-identity plotline are adhered to, with several delightful slapstick sidetrips along the way. Supporting Mr. Mouse are such Disney stalwarts Read More

Pudd'nhead Wilson

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Ken Howard

Synopsis: Pudd'nhead Wilson, Mark Twain's attack on racial prejudice in the guise of a mystery tale, was adapted for television in 1984 by Philip Reisman Jr. Ken Howard plays lawyer "Pudd'nhead" Wilson, so named because of his silly behavior and foolish appearance. Wilson, however, has a lot more on the Read More

The Private History of a Campaign That Failed

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Mark Twain's essay is brought to life with this video telling the Civil War story of a Confederate troop who has not been exposed to the atrocities of war. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Adventures of Mark Twain

Crew: Book Author

Actors: James Whitmore, Michele Mariana, Gary Krug, Chris Ritchie

Synopsis: Will Vinton, the stop-motion animation whiz who brought us The California Raisins, is the principal creative force behind The Adventures of Mark Twain. A clay-model Twain, voiced by James Whitmore, sets out in a hot-air balloon to find Halley's Comet. Joining the waspish humorist on his journey Read More

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Sam Williams, Patrick Day, Frederic Forrest

Synopsis: 1985's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the only filmed version of the Mark Twain classic to cover every episode in the original novel and not merely such familiar vignettes as the "King and the Duke" business. Presented in four parts, Finn opens in 1844, with young Huck (Patrick Day) Read More

The Innocents Abroad

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Craig Wasson, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Filmed on location in France, Italy, Greece, and Egypt, Innocents Abroad was adapted by Dan Wakefield from the 1869 book by Mark Twain. The Twain original was an amusing, semi-satiric account of the author's Grand Tour of Europe and the Holy Land in 1867. Most of the humor derived from the Read More

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Originally telecast the day after Thanksgiving of 1984 by most of the CBS affiliates, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a reasonably faithful adaptation of the classic Mark Twain novel. The producers concentrated on the bare-bones essentials, with special emphasis on Huck's odyssey down the Read More

The Mysterious Stranger

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: This adaptation of a Mark Twain story features a daydreaming apprentice who finds himself in medieval Europe. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

Crew: Book Author, Short Story Author

Synopsis: Inasmuch as Mark Twain thoughtlessly neglected to mention all the "secret adventures" of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in his own books on these colorful characters, this CBS TV movie performed a public service by taking up the slack. According to Rascals and Robbers, Hannibal's own Tom (Patrick Read More

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Huckleberry Finn joins Tom Sawyer and Jim, a runaway slave, as they escape down the Mississippi River on a raft. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Huckleberry Finn

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Timothy Gibbs

Synopsis: This effort is one of many films based on Mark Twain's most celebrated novel that chronicles the Mississippi River adventures of a young boy and a runaway slave. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Robert Preston

Synopsis: Filmed in Vermont, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg is based on one of Mark Twain's more mysoginistic works. Mysterious stranger Robert Preston shows up in Hadleyburg, a town that prides itself upon the honesty and integrity of its leaders. Preston offers $40,000 in gold to the anonymous Read More

Unidentified Flying Oddball

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Dennis Dugan, Kenneth More, Jim Dale, Ron Moody, John Le Mesurier

Synopsis: We prefer the original release title of Disney's A Spaceman in King Arthur's Court: Unidentified Flying Oddball. In this new twist on an old Mark Twain yarn, NASA scientist Dennis Dugan and his robot clone are whisked back in time to the days of King Arthur (Kenneth More). After performing several Read More

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: This is a 1978 version of the Mark Twain classic with Huck dodging the drudgery of an eastern boys school (which he's doomed to attend) by faking his own drowning. Unfortunately his shenanigans result in his good friend Jim getting blamed for his apparent earthly exit. So the two of them set off Read More

Mark Twain: Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Adaptation of Mark Twain's story finds a Connecticut blacksmith who falls asleep and finds himself in King Arthur's England. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Bugs Bunny in King Arthur's Court

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: The witty 'toon rabbit finds himself in medieval times in this animated spoof of Mark Twain's classic tale. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Prince and the Pauper

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Mark Lester, Ernest Borgnine, George C. Scott

Synopsis: A poor commoner and a young prince each find out how the other half lives in this adventure story based on the classic tale by Mark Twain. Tom Canty (Mark Lester) is a young man from a laboring family who bears a striking resemblance to Prince Edward (also played by Lester), the son of King Henry Read More

Huckleberry Finn

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Royal Dano, Jack Elam, Antonio Fargas, Merle Haggard, Ron Howard

Synopsis: It's still the same old story...but what a story. This umpteenth filmization of the classic Mark Twain novel stars Ron Howard as Huck and Donny Most as Tom Sawyer. After faking his own murder to escape his brutish Pap (played by Howard's real-life father Rance), Huck and fugitive slave Jim (Antonio Fargas Read More

Sovsem Propashchiy

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Roman Madyanov, Feliks Imokuede, Yevgeny Leonov, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Vladimir Basov

Synopsis: This Soviet Russian film is loosely based on Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Georgian director Georgi Daniela aptly brings the sometimes obscure, even surreal, Georgian sense of humor to the screen using two of his favorite actors, Vakhtang Kikabidze (as the "Duke") and Yevgeni Leonov (as the Read More

Huckleberry Finn

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Odessa Cleveland, Jean Fay, Kim O'Brien, Jeff East, Paul Winfield, Harvey Korman

Synopsis: One of Mark Twain's best-loved stories becomes a screen musical in this family-friendly adaptation. Mischievous Huckleberry Finn (Jeff East) is a 15-year-old boy who has long had a difficult relationship with his often violent father. When Dad tried to kidnap him, Huck decides to run away from Read More

Tom Sawyer

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Josh Albee

Synopsis: This much-laundered adaptation of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer was first presented as a 90-minute TV special on March 23, 1973. Josh Albee is Tom, Jeff Tyler is Huckleberry Finn, Jane Wyatt is Aunt Polly and Buddy Ebsen is Muff Potter--all acceptable but antiseptic shadows of the Twain original. Only Read More

Tom Sawyer

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Johnny Whitaker, Celeste Holm, Warren Oates, Jeff East, Jodie Foster

Synopsis: Mark Twain's classic tale is brought to the screen for the fourth time, this time with a tuneful score by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, who also wrote the screen adaptation. Johnny Whitaker stars as Tom Sawyer, with Jeff East in his first film role as Huck Finn. Jodie Foster is also on Read More

Huckleberry Finn

Crew: Book Author

The Prince and the Pauper

Crew: Book Author

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: In A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, chaos results when a resident of 20th-century America is transported back in time to medieval England and encounters the Knights of Camelot. This 1970 animated adaptation of Mark Twain's famous short story was directed by Zoran Zanjic and emphasizes Read More

The Prince and the Pauper

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: This version of the Mark Twain classic was filmed in Ireland. It tells the story of a bored prince who exchanges places with a look-a-like beggar who dreams of wealth and power. Not surprisingly, neither lad is happy in the other's shoes, and just before the "prince" is to be crowned king, they Read More

The Double-Barrelled Detective Story

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Jeff Siggins, Greta Thyssen, Hurd Hatfield, Jerome Raphel

Synopsis: This comedy is adapted from a short story by Mark Twain. An abusive carpetbagger marries a plantation owner's daughter to humiliate him. He is cruel to his wife, but she will not complain to her father. The beastly carpetbagger ties the stoic woman to a tree and sets the bloodhounds upon her. They Read More

The Prince and the Pauper

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Guy Williams, Sean Scully, Laurence Naismith, Niall MacGinnis, Donald Houston

Synopsis: Based on Mark Twain's classic tale, this lively 16th-century-set comedy drama chronicles the misadventures and the lessons learned by two disparate and discontented look-a-likes who swear that the grass really is greener on the other side of the fence. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Tony Randall, Eddie Hodges, Archie Moore, Patty McCormack, Neville Brand

Synopsis: MGM's all-star 1960 filmization of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn surgically removes the sociological subtext of Mark Twain's novel in the interests of "entertainment for the whole family." The emphasis is on the adventuresome escapades of Huck (Eddie Hodges) and fugitive slave Jim (played by Read More

Du Pont Show of the Month: The Prince and the Pauper

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Christopher Plummer, Rosemary Harris, Rex Thompson, John Washbrook, Cedric Hardwicke

Synopsis: This second presentation of the classic dramatic anthology Du Pont Show of the Month is a lavishly mounted adaptation of Mark Twain's historical novel The Prince and the Pauper. Although virtually every film version of this work has either cast twin boys in the roles of young Prince Edward and his Read More

Climax!: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Crew: Book Author

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Produced for the "Climax" television program, this small screen adaptation of Mark Twain's classic tale stars Thomas Mitchell and John Carradine. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Million Pound Note

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Gregory Peck, Jane Griffiths, Ronald Squire, Joyce Grenfell, Reginald Beckwith

Synopsis: Released in the US as Man With a Million, The Million Pound Note is a satisfying adaptation of a satirical short story by Mark Twain. Gregory Peck plays Henry Adams, an impecunious American living by his wits in London. Henry becomes the object of a wager between millionaire brothers Oliver and Read More

Studio One: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: The classic Mark Twain time travel fantasy comes to vivid life on the small screen in this television production starring Barry Kroeger, Thomas Mitchell, and Boris Karloff. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Cedric Hardwicke, William Bendix, Henry Wilcoxon, Murvyn Vye

Synopsis: Though the Mark Twain original has been refashioned into a Bing Crosby vehicle, this 1949 musical adaptation of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a lot more faithful to the Twain original than either of the two previous film versions. Crosby plays Hank Martin, a turn-of-the-century Read More

The Best Man Wins

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Edgar Buchanan, Anna Lee, Robert Shayne, Gary Gray, Hobart Cavanaugh

Synopsis: Edgar Buchanan stars as a man who abruptly leaves his wife (Anna Lee) to "find himself". When he returns, he discovers that wifey has divorced him and has married stuffy Robert Shayne (later "Inspector Henderson" on the Superman TV series). Buchanan and Lee's son Gary Gray helps reunite the Read More

Tom Sawyer, Detective

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Billy Cook, Donald O'Connor, Porter Hall, Philip Warren, Janet Waldo

Synopsis: Even geniuses have to eat, and when Mark Twain was offered a substantial sum of money to slap together a quickie sequel to his classic novel Tom Sawyer, he responded with the pulpish but entertaining Tom Sawyer, Detective. Billy Cook is sublimely cast as Tom, while Donald O'Connor steals the film Read More

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Walter Connolly, William Frawley, Rex Ingram, Lynne Carver

Synopsis: Mickey Rooney may have been born to play Mark Twain's legendary hellraiser Huck Finn, but 1939's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is so MGM-ized that Rooney seems to be sedated. Otherwise, this is a slick retelling of the Twain classic, with Huck escaping both the oppressive kindliness of the Read More

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Tommy Kelly, Jackie Moran, Ann Gillis, May Robson, Walter Brennan

Synopsis: The 1938 version of Adventures of Tom Sawyer appears to be producer David O. Selznick's dry run for Gone with the Wind, what with its similarities in period, costumes, color scheme and production design (both films shared the services of the great Hollywood art director William Cameron Menzies). Read More

The Prince and the Pauper

Crew: Book Author, Short Story Author

Actors: Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Henry Stephenson, Barton MacLane, Billy Mauch

Synopsis: In 1882, Mark Twain published a delightful fairy tale "for young people of all ages"; 45 years later, Warner Bros., inspired by the real-life coronation of Edward VII, created a lavish screen version starring radio favorites Billy and Bobby Mauch in the title roles and Errol Flynn as their dashing Read More

A Connecticut Yankee

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Will Rogers, William Farnum, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Albertson

Synopsis: This Mark Twain adaptation affords a rare opportunity to enjoy a "collaboration" between two of America's greatest humorists. Will Rogers plays the operator of a tiny radio repair shop, who is called to an old mansion to replace a battery on a dark and stormy night. Here Will meets a scientist (William Farnum Read More

Huckleberry Finn

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Jackie Coogan, Mitzi Green, Junior Durkin, Jackie Searl, Clarence Muse, Clara Blandick

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn stars Junior Durkin in the title role, Jackie Coogan as Tom Sawyer, Mitzi Green as Becky Thatcher and Clarence Muse as Jim the slave. The film hopscotches around the book, ignoring such highlights as the Grangeford-Shepherdson feud and devoting Read More

Tom Sawyer

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Jackie Coogan, Junior Durkin, Mitzi Green, Lucien Littlefield, Tully Marshall

Synopsis: Tom Sawyer, Paramount's 1930 Christmas release, was the first talkie version of Mark Twain's beloved novel. A rapidly maturing Jackie Coogan is well cast as Tom, while Junior Durkin is even better as Tom's freewheeling pal Huck Finn. Juvenile impressionist Mitzi Green comes on a bit too strong in Read More

Huckleberry Finn

Crew: Book Author

Actors: George H. Reed, Lewis Sargent

Synopsis: There are no huge names attached to this silent version of the classic Mark Twain story (although director William Desmond Taylor would become famous a couple of years later when he was mysteriously murdered). But stars weren't necessary; everyone in America had read the book. Huck Finn and Tom Read More

Prinz und Bettelknabe

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Tibi Lubin, Francis Everth, Francis Herter, Alfred Schreiber

Synopsis: Directing credit for this Austrian-made production went to "Alexander Kardo" -- probably a misspelling of Alexander Korda, who was working in both Austria and Germany at the time. It sticks closely to Mark Twain's original story -- when Tom Canty, a beggar's boy (Tibi Lubin) wanders into the Royal Read More