Movie for a Sunday afternoon: "Tom Sawyer"(1930)

You Tube ^ | 1930 | John Cromwell

[ReformationFan]

Today's feature is the first talking picture version of the classic children's adventure novel and one of my favorite books. Jackie Coogan(later Uncle Fester on "The Addams Family") plays Mark Twain's mischievous young hero. I think David O. Selznick used this version as a template for his more famous, Technicolor version made 8 years later. I remember watching this version on one of my local TV stations as a kid and they completely cut out the sequence in the cave which is thankfully restored in the youtube link.

[ReformationFan]

ping

[Dacula]

Can’t you find Memorial Day themed movie?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/markhughes/2012/05/27/top-ten-movies-to-watch-on-memorial-day/

[Diana in Wisconsin]

‘The Longest Day.’

[Sawdring]

I recently read Tom Sawyer to my 8 year old. He loved it! We might have to watch the movie now.

[onedoug]

Mark Twain ping....

Thanks for posting RF!

[HonkyTonkMan]

Glory? no thanks

[Diana in Wisconsin]

No...I suggested, ‘The Longest Day.’

[HonkyTonkMan]

Yep....but #1 on that guy’s list is Glory. Anyhow, there are some other good ones in there.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Never been inclined to watch, ‘Glory.’ However, while I’m not big on gore, I watched, ‘The Patriot’ from start to finish, and then watched it again in one sitting.

(Used to be big on Mel until he went Coo-Coo for Cocoa Puffs, right before our very eyes, LOL!)

[HonkyTonkMan]

ha! Coco Puffs is right....lol.

Patriot is tops!

[ArtDodger]

Diana,
Great of you to supply that link for Memorial Day entertainment.
Thanks!

[swampfox101]

Patton, Battle of the Bulge, Battleground,Sands of Iwo Jima,Flying Leathernecks,The Green Berets and The Dirty Dozen.

[Catmom]

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).

[ReformationFan]

Great! I loved that book as a child and often re-read it. I watched just about every movie version of it that they would broadcast on TV.

[greene66]

Mitzi Green is sort of a forgotten child actress nowadays, but she was a fairly well-known, if lower-tier, celebrity in the early-1930s, making films at Paramount and often being written up in movie magazines. She made an attempt at an adult comeback in the 1950s, starring in the short-lived tv-sitcom “So This is Hollywood.”

[ErnBatavia]

“Taking Chance”

[AppyPappy]

I was in theater with a guy who did one (count ‘em) one movie: The Big Red One. I’ve been dying to watch it.

[Dacula]

Excellent choice. Going to watch it tonight.

Thanks.

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