The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adaptations

Film

  • Huck and Tom (1918 silent) by Famous Players–Lasky; directed by William Desmond Taylor; starring Jack Pickford as Tom, Robert Gordon as Huck and Clara Horton as Becky[52]
  • Huckleberry Finn (1920 silent) by Famous Players–Lasky; directed by William Desmond Taylor; starring Lewis Sargent as Huck, Gordon Griffith as Tom and Thelma Salter as Becky[53][54]
  • Huckleberry Finn (1931) by Paramount Pictures; directed by Norman Taurog; starring Jackie Coogan as Tom, Junior Durkin as Huck, and Mitzi Green as Becky[54][55]
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939) by MGM; directed by Richard Thorpe; starring Mickey Rooney as Huck[56]
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1955), starring Thomas Mitchell and John Carradine[57]
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960), directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Eddie Hodges and Archie Moore[58]
  • Hopelessly Lost (1973), a Soviet film[59]
  • Huckleberry Finn (1974), a musical film[60]
  • Huckleberry Finn (1975), an ABC movie of the week with Ron Howard as Huck Finn[61]
  • The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn (1985), an ABC movie of the week with Drew Barrymore as Con Sawyer[62]
  • The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993), starring Elijah Wood and Courtney B. Vance[63]
  • Tom and Huck (1995), starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas as Tom and Brad Renfro as Huck[64]
  • Tomato Sawyer and Huckleberry Larry's Big River Rescue (2008), a VeggieTales parody[65]
  • The Adventures of Huck Finn (2012), a German film starring Leon Seidel and directed by Hermine Huntgeburth[66]
  • Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (2014), starring Joel Courtney as Tom Sawyer, Jake T. Austin as Huckleberry Finn, Katherine McNamara as Becky Thatcher[67]

Television

  • Huckleberry no Bōken, a 1976 Japanese anime with 26 episodes[68]
  • Huckleberry Finn and His Friends, a 1979 series starring Ian Tracey[69]
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a 1985 PBS TV adaptation directed by Peter H. Hunt, starring Patrick Day and Samm-Art Williams, with 4 one hour episodes(240 minutes)
  • Huckleberry Finn Monogatari (ハックルベリー・フィン物語), a 1994 Japanese anime with 26 episodes, produced by NHK[70]

Other

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1973), by Robert James Dixson – a simplified version[71]
  • Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a 1985 Broadway musical with lyrics and music by Roger Miller[72]
  • Manga Classics: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, published by UDON Entertainment's Manga Classics imprint was released in November 2017.[73]
  • Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined, an upcoming graphic novel reimagining written and illustrated by David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson, and scheduled to be released in October 2024. Omitting Twain's negative portrayal of African Americans, Big Jim and the White Boy will expand the original novel by depicting Big Jim as the primary protagonist and Huckleberry Finn as his sidekick. The plot will be about Big Jim and Huck journeying through Civil War-era United States to rescue the former's enslaved wife and children and even becoming Underground Railroad agents, before going throughout the decades as generations of Big Jim's descendants fight for their rights.[74]

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