Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder.
Acting
Jodie Foster's film debut at 10—already out-acting everyone.
Practical Effects
Real Missouri locations and actual river chaos, no CGI in sight.
Director
Don Taylor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The cave scenes were filmed in Missouri's real Mark Twain Cave, where Twain himself played as a child.
This was the first musical adaptation of Twain's novel, made during a brief 70s boom of family musicals before Star Wars killed the genre.
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