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Mickey Rooney plays the title role in Richard Thorpe's screen version of the Mark Twain classic about the crafty river-boat hero and his adventures down the Mississippi.

Keywords:

Adventure, Drama, Based-on-Novel, Movie, Film, Movies, Films

Additional Information:

(Black and white) (1939) (USA) (3 Star)

Cast:

Mickey Rooney	.... Huckleberry Finn
Walter Connolly	.... The 'King'
William Frawley	.... The 'Duke'
Rex Ingram	.... Jim
Lynne Carver	.... Mary Jane Wilkes
Jo Ann Sayers	.... Susan Wilkes

Supporting Cast:

Minor Watson	.... Capt. Brandy
Elisabeth Risdon	.... Widow Douglass
Victor Kilian	.... 'Pap' Finn
Clara Blandick	.... Miss Watson

Directors:

Richard Thorpe

Writers:

Hugo Butler
Mark Twain