Huckleberry Finn (1920)

192030mdir. William Desmond TaylorUnited Statessilent filmcomedy drama

Note: this print runs 30 minutes against a recorded 70 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Lewis Sargent, Katherine Griffith, George H. Reed, Gordon Griffith, Frank Lanning, Martha Mattox, Orral Humphrey, Edythe Chapman

Directed by William Desmond Taylor

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Huckleberry Finn is a surviving American silent dramatic rural film from 1920, based on Mark Twain's 1884 classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It was produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. William Desmond Taylor directed Huckleberry Finn, as he had the 1917 film version of Tom Sawyer, using a scenario written by Julia Crawford Ivers, who also had been the writer for Tom Sawyer.

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