Huckleberry Finn (1920 film)

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.[1]

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Huckleberry Finn
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Directed by	William Desmond Taylor
Written by	Julia Crawford Ivers (scenario)
Based on	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Produced by	Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky William Desmond Taylor
Starring	Lewis Sargent Martha Mattox Esther Ralston Howard Ralston
Cinematography	Frank E. Garbutt
Production company	Famous Players–Lasky / Artcraft
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	February 29, 1920 (1920-02-29)
Running time	7 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

It was the first version of the story entirely entrusted to a youth cast. Lewis Sargent (Huck) and Gordon Griffith (Tom) were child actors who already had a long and successful career and were well known to the public.[2]