Twain moves from Mississippi riverboats to the Gold Rush to literary immortality., Biography of Mark Twain, the famous American writer and humorist who was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens. It chronicles the period from his 20s to his death in his 70s. Based on the play “Mark Twain” by Harold M. Sherman., Dismissed by critics as corny and obvious in 1944, this overlong but sincere biopic looks pretty good when seen today, cliches notwithstanding. Fredric March, 47 at the time, convincingly plays American author Sam Clemens, aka Mark Twain, from his early 20s to his death at 75. In typical movie-biography fashion, every single incident that happens in Twain’s life is an INSPIRATION: he hears the depth-indication call “Mark Twain” while working on a riverboat and his face lights up; he engages in a jumping-frog contest against Bret Harte (John Carradine) and comes up with his first popular published story; and so on. Alexis Smith is better than usual in the role of Twain’s wife Olivia Langdon, even keeping a straight face while Twain courts her in Fluent Quotation (“Everybody talks about the weather but nobody ever does anything about it”, he says during a Hollywood-romance cloudburst). Though the script barely touches upon the dark side of Twain’s nature, we are not spared his financial reverses (brought about by bad investments and his struggle to publish Ulysses S. Grant’s memoirs. The closing sequence, with Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn beckoning the spirit of Mark Twain to heaven as Halley’s Comet fills the skies, may seem laughable on paper, but works quite well on film; even director Irving Rapper expressed amazement at the effectiveness of this scene!
Q&A :
Q: Who are the main cast members in “The Adventures of Mark Twain ” ?
A: The main cast includes Fredric March,Alexis Smith,Donald Crisp,Alan Hale,C. Aubrey Smith,John Carradine,William Henry,Robert Barrat,Robert H. Barrat,Walter Hampden,Joyce Reynolds,Whitford Kane,Percy Kilbride,Nana Bryant,Dick Jones,Kay Johnson,Jackie Brown,Eugene Holland,Michael Miller,Joseph Crehan,Cliff Saum,Harry Tyler,Roland Drew,Douglas Wood,Willie Best,Burr Caruth,Harry Hilliard,Brandon Hurst,Davison Clark,Monte Blue,Paul ‘Tiny’ Newlan,Paul Newlan,Ernest Whitman,Emmett Smith,Pat O’Malley,Chester Conklin,George Lessey,Dorothy Vaughan,Gloria Ann Crawford,Lynne Baggett,Carol Coombs,Charlene Salerno,Joyce Tucker,Charles Waldron,Paul Scardon,Diana Barrymore,Thurston Hall,Bobby Larson,Frank Mayo,Lee Powell,Frank Reicher,Robert E. Homans,Ralph Dawson,Lawrence Butler,Sol Polito,John Hughes,Harry Sherman,John Crous,Fred MacLean,Paul Detlefsen,Don Siegel,Eddie Linden,Harry Chandlee,Perc Westmore,Jack L. Warner,Orry-Kelly,Alan LeMay,Leo F. Forbstein,James Leicester.
Q: When Did the “The Adventures of Mark Twain” Released?
A: The Movie “The Adventures of Mark Twain” originally aired on 1944-07-22 and released in the year of 1944.
Q: What Languages are available to watch “The Adventures of Mark Twain” ?
A: Is also available in eng language.
Q: Where to watch “The Adventures of Mark Twain” ?
A: “The Adventures of Mark Twain” is Avaiable on Netflix. as its Netflix Originals.
