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Clara Horton and Jack Pickford (foreground).
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Tom Sawyer
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by William Desmond Taylor
Cast: Jack Pickford [Tom Sawyer], Clara Horton [Becky Thatcher], George Hackathorne [Sid Sawyer], Alice Marvin [Mary Sawyer], Edythe Chapman [Aunt Polly], Robert Gordon [Huckleberry Finn], Antrim Short [Joe Harper], Helen Gilmore [Widow Douglas], Carl Goetz [Alfred Temple]
The Oliver Morosco Photoplay Company production by arrangement with Mark Twain Company; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Photoplay (scenario) by Julia Crawford Ivers, from the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). Cinematography by Homer Scott. Presented by Jesse L. Lasky. / © 7 November 1917 by The Oliver Morosco Photoplay Company [LP11703]. Released 10 December 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / A contemporary news article notes that this production was shot in Hannibal, Missouri.
Comedy-Drama.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.4513.
Survival status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive; and in the film holdings of Film Preservation Associates (Blackhawk Films collection).
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: African-Americans - Authors: Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910) - Children - Churches - Disguises - Families: Aunts, Brothers - Fights: Fist fights - Friendship - Funerals - Islands - Pirates - Rafts - Runaways - Schools - USA: Mississippi River - USA: Missouri: Hannibal
Listing updated: 7 May 2012.
References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F1 n. F1.4513; Everson-American p. 151; Sinyard-Silent p. 94.
Home video: DVD.
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