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Summary: Rip-off alert! Poorly dubbed and edited Russian miniseries!
Review: This is a 135 minute version of Priklyucheniya Toma Sojera i Geklberri Finna (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Hucklebery Finn), a 1981 Russian television miniseries with an original running time of 225 minutes. 90 minutes have been excised from this version, and the action abruptly jumps from one scene to another with oddly placed fades to black. Most of the actors have remarkably expressionless faces, and the dubbing is reminiscent of Japanese Godzilla movies. The last thirteen minutes of the disc were so badly damaged that the DVD player kept freezing, and we couldn't jump to the next chapter because the DVD is only divided into five chapters, each about thirty minutes in length. The film is deceptively packaged---the Russian names have been translated to English (star Fyodor Stukov is credited as Fred Stack), and nothing in the credits indicates the film's origins. Don't waste your money on this.
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Summary: BEST FAMILY FILM YET
Review: This is a wonderful film for the entire family. A well told tale of Mark Twain's beloved book. It has all the big sets that only MGM could do, and the costumes set the perfect tune for this family epic.
Two young boys gorwing up along the Missippissi River in the days of riverboats and minstrels. Young viewers will be entranced as they watch Tom and Huck Finn ponder what to do next after they wittness the murder of the town's doctor at the graveyard.
This is a film that will be watched again and again. FIVE STARS !
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Summary: AN OUTSTANDING FAMILY FILM WITH A GREAT CAST !
Review: This is truthfully a period motion picture that your entire family can enjoy. It is devoid of senseless and vulgar language so common in many of today's films. I was gratified to see that MGM did not deviate from Mark Twain's original story. The film begins with the famous fence painting scene where Tom tricks all his friends into doing his work and then follows the adventures of Tom and his friend Huck as they go about being boys in Hannibal along the mighty Mississippi.There are values that young viewers can learn. Tom and Huck witness the murder of Dr. Robinson. The know the the man accused and jailed of the murder is innocent. The two boys though scared, bravely testify and reveal the true killer's identify. Fred Stack plays Tom to perfection as the young adventurer, and Lipton is well cast as the endearing but delinquent Huck. All in all a great story, well filmed that our family thoroughly enjoyed.
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Summary: awful
Review: This movie is absolutely AWFUL. DON'T BUY IT. The acting is atrocious. The Mississippi sets are in Eastern Europe. The print is washed out. The movie is poorly dubbed. Any review in here praising the movie is a hoax.
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Summary: The Great American Story !
Review: This wonderful motion picture tells Mark Twain's classis tale of two young boys, Tom Sawyer and his best friend, Huck Finn in the 1840's. Tom and Huck witness the murder of Dr. Robinson in the graveyard at midnight. Scared, they run away to become pirates on the mighty Mississippi, swearing never to reveal their secret. But when a man is wrongfully accused of the murder, the boys know they must come forward with the truth to clear him. As a librarian who knows the story, it is a joy that the producers stayed true to Twain's story. This is the best film version I have seen. It should entice audiences to read this great American work.
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Summary: Mark Twains Tom Sawyer
Review: Unsatisfactory production. Dialog was not performed well and was poorly dubbed. The story remains excellent but was produced badly.
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