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Tom Sawyer is a american film of genre Adventure directed by Don Taylor released in USA on 15 march 1973 with Johnny Whitaker

Tom Sawyer (1973)

Tom Sawyer
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Released in USA 15 march 1973
Length 1h44
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Adventure,    Musical
Rating63% 3.198053.198053.198053.198053.19805

Tom Sawyer is a 1973 American musical film adaptation of the Mark Twain boyhood adventure story, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, starring Johnny Whitaker as Tom, Jodie Foster as Becky Thatcher, and Jeff East as Huckleberry Finn. Ho-Chunk tribesman Kunu Hank portrayed Injun Joe.

The movie was produced by Reader's Digest. The film's screenplay and songs were written by Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman who would go on to provide more award-winning music for the sequel Huckleberry Finn.

Synopsis

Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn play hooky from school and have a plan to revive a dead cat with the spirit of a man named Hoss Williams who is on his death bed. Sawyer and Finn talk with Muff Potter, the town drunk, but are interrupted when Injun Joe says that Doc Robinson wants to see them. Muff and Joe meet Robinson and he informs them that they have a job to dig the grave of Williams. Joe is angry that Robinson didn't fix his leg correctly. Meanwhile, Tom continues to skip school and comes up with fantastic stories about why he's not home for dinner, where he tricks the children of the town to do his punishment chores for him.

Actors

Johnny Whitaker

(Tom Sawyer)Celeste Holm

(Tia Polly)Warren Oates

(Muff Potter)Jeff East

(Huckleberry Finn)Jodie Foster

(Becky Thatcher)
And :
Lucille Benson
Henry Jones
Noah Keen
Dub Taylor
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