Huckleberry Finn
Runaway Huck Finn rafts down the Mississippi with his friends.
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"TOM SAWYER proved to be one of the biggest box office successes of 1930, so naturally Paramount hurried to reteam Jackie Coogan and Junior Durkin in HUCKLEBERRY FINN. The problem: Tom plays a fairly minor role in the novel, and Coogan was too big a star to play a supporting role. The screenwriters' solution was to have Tom tag along with Huck and Jim on their journey. Fidelity to the source material is far less important to Hollywood than pacifying a star. Coogan, who was a bit too much of a goody-goody to make a convincing Tom (he wasn't capable of capturing the character's pen..."
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One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since; its earliest documented telecast took place in Seattle Friday 1 May 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7); it first aired in Philadelphia Wednesday 21 October 1959 on WCAU (Channel 10).
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Runaway Huck Finn rafts down the Mississippi with his friends.