[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]

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[Dacula]

Can’t you find Memorial Day themed movie?

[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!

[swampfox101]

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

[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.”

[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.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

Is this a good version? Never seen any Jackie Coogan movies (though I liked Jackie Cooper in “Treasure Island” quite a bit). I’ve been reading “Tom Sawyer” to our sons, so they’d probably love this if the child actors aren’t awful. ;o) What’s the scoop? Thanks1

[logi_cal869]

Inglourious Basterds.

Streaming right now (Netflix), big bowl of popcorn.