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The Adventures Of Mark Twain

1944, Movie, NR, 130 mins

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Cliched but engaging film biography, with a solid performance by Fredric March as the young adventurer who left Hannibal, Missouri, to learn the Mississippi River's tricky ways as a navigator. In one scene, the young navigator is attempting to steer a riverboat through fogbound waters when he hears a deckhand, after throwing out a weight to determine the water's depth, shout: "Mark the twain [twine--the rope tied about the weight] 15 [feet]." Thus the nom de plume of one of ... read more
Year: 1944
Rated NR

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Cast
Fredric March: Samuel Clemens
Alexis Smith: Olivia Langdon
Donald Crisp: J. B. Pond
Alan Hale: Steve Gillis
C. Aubrey Smith: Oxford Chancellor
John Carradine: Bret Harte

 

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Posted: 8/1/2008
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