Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn is a 1931 American pre-Code adventure comedy film directed by Norman Taurog, and written by Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt, based on Mark Twain's 1884 novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It stars Jackie Coogan as Tom Sawyer, Mitzi Green as Becky Thatcher, Junior Durkin as Huckleberry Finn, and Jackie Searl as Sid Sawyer. Cast Jackie Coogan as Tom Sawyer Junior Durkin as Huckleberry Finn Mitzi Green as Becky Thatcher Jackie Searl as Sid Sawyer Clarence Muse as Jim Eugene Pallette as Duke of Bridgewater Oscar Apfel as The King Clara Blandick as Aunt Polly Jane Darwell as Widow Douglas Warner Richmond as Pap Finn Charlotte Henry as Mary Jane Lillian Harmer as Miss Watson Guy Oliver as Judge Thatcher Edward LeSaint as Doc Robinson (uncredited) Frank McGlynn Sr. as Teacher (uncredited) Production This is an adaptation of the classic novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and is a follow-up to Tom Sawyer (1930). Omitting the entire issue of whether or not Huck ought to turn the slave Jim back in after Jim escapes his owners, it concentrated mostly on the comedy in the novel, and turned Jim into the typical comic "darkie" stereotype of that era. The film was made as a follow-up to Paramount's Tom Sawyer, which had been released a year earlier with substantially the same cast and became the top-grossing film of 1930.