The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.3/10   

Director:

Norman Taurog

Escritores:

Mark Twain (novel)
John V.A. Weaver (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

11 febrero 1938 (USA)

Género:

Familia | Aventura

Frase comercial:

Everybody knows him! Everybody loves him! He's everybody's favorite boy! Mark Twain's most beloved story

Plot:

Misadventures of a mischievous boy in 1850 Missouri.

Plot Keywords:

Missouri | Murder | Graveyard | Cave | Island

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Oh, those KIDS!

Reparto

May Robson	...	Aunt Polly
Walter Brennan	...	Muff Potter
Victor Jory	...	Injun Joe
David Holt	...	Sid Sawyer
Victor Kilian	...	Sheriff
Nana Bryant	...	Mrs. Thatcher
Olin Howland	...	Mr. Dobbins - Schoolmaster
Donald Meek	...	Sunday School Superintendent
Charles Richman	...	Judge Thatcher
Margaret Hamilton	...	Mrs. Harper
Marcia Mae Jones	...	Mary Sawyer
Mickey Rentschler	...	Joe Harper
Cora Sue Collins	...	Amy Lawrence
Philip Hurlic	...	Little Jim
Ann Gillis	...	Becky Thatcher

También conocida como:

Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer (Spain) [es]

Duración:

Spain:77 min | USA:91 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Clasificación:

USA:TV-G (TV rating) | Finland:K-12 (1951) | Finland:S (1938) | USA:Approved (certificate #3745)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Big Bear Lake, California, USA

Compañía:

Selznick International Pictures

Trivialidades:

Spring Byington (Widow Douglas) in studio records/casting call lists, but did not appear or was not identifiable in the movie.

Conexiones de Película:

Version of Priklyucheniya Toma Soyera i Geklberri Finna (1981) (TV)

Banda de Sonido:

Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean

Oh, those KIDS!

We complain that today's movie stars lack the charisma, the memorable faces and personalities of the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age. But one thing has gotten better over the years and that's child acting. Today's kids are remarkably natural and real compared with the awful, slow, sticky artificiality of most of the child actors of yesteryear.

There are many wonderful things about this film. William Cameron Menzies' visualization of the graveyard and the caves, Jack Cosgrove's matte paintings (those skies!), James Wong Howe's cinematography are all first class and memorable. Some (but not all) of the adult actors are quite fine. But the labored hamminess of the kids is quite unendurable. The illusion of thought, the illusion that something is being said for the first time never surfaces here for a moment. All is wide-eyed, over-rehearsed, over-enunciated and torture to watch.

Mark Twain's immortal story retains power and magic, and the cave sequence in particular will stay with you, but in spite of the child actors, not because of them.