Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn is the 1974 musical film version of Mark Twain's American classic boyhood adventure story, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The movie was produced by Reader's Digest and Arthur P. Jacobs (well-known for his role in the production of the Planet of the Apes films) and starred Jeff East as Huckleberry Finn and Paul Winfield as Jim. The film contains original music and songs, such as Freedom and Cairo, Illinois, by the popular "Sh... more

Huckleberry Finn is the 1974 musical film version of Mark Twain's American classic boyhood adventure story, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The movie was produced by Reader's Digest and Arthur P. Jacobs (well-known for his role in the production of the Planet of the Apes films) and starred Jeff East as Huckleberry Finn and Paul Winfield as Jim. The film contains original music and songs, such as Freedom and Cairo, Illinois, by the popular "Sherman Brothers," Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman. This film followed the previous year's highly successful Tom Sawyer, based on Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which was produced and written by the same team and also starred Jeff East in the role of Huckleberry Finn. Hucklberry Finn (Jeff East) a boy from Missouri who goes fishing and gets locked in the cabin from his nasty old Dad (Gary Merrill) and shots the horse riders with a Gun becomes friends with a slave Jim (Paul Winfield) rides on a log boat and lives at the... less