The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985 film)
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| The Adventures of Mark Twain | |
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| Directed by | Will Vinton |
| Produced by | Will Vinton |
| Written by | Mark Twain Susan Shadburne |
| Starring | James Whitmore Gary Krug Chris Ritchie Carol Edelman John Morrison Will Vinton Gary Thompson Dallas McKennon |
| Music by | Billy Scream |
| Editing by | Kelley Baker Michael Gall Ed Geis Skeets McGrew Will Vinton |
| Studio | Will Vinton Productions Harbour Town Films |
| Distributed by | Clubhouse Pictures |
| Release date(s) | March 1, 1985 |
| Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Adventures of Mark Twain, released in the UK as Comet Quest, is a 1985 American stop motion animated fantasy film directed by Will Vinton. It received a wider theatrical release, still limited to seven major cities, in May 1985. It was released on DVD in January 2006. The film features a series of vignettes extracted from several of Mark Twain's works, built around a plot that features Twain's attempts to keep his "appointment" with Halley's Comet. Twain and three children, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher, travel on an airship between various adventures.
The concept was inspired by a famous quote by the author:
"I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"[1]
Twain died April 21, 1910, one day after Halley's Comet reached perihelion in 1910).[2]
Included are sketches taken from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Mysterious Stranger, "The Diaries of Adam and Eve (Letters from the Earth)", "Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" and a rendering of Twain's first story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". References are made to his other works, including "The Damned Human Race". This animated film was shot in Portland, Oregon.
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Cast [edit]
- James Whitmore as Mark Twain
- Michele Mariana as Becky Thatcher
- Gary Krug as Huck Finn
- Chris Ritchie as Tom Sawyer
- John Morrison as Adam
- Carol Edelman as Eve
- Dallas McKennon as Jim Smiley and Newspaper Boy
- Herb Smith as The Stranger
- Marley Stone as Aunt Polly
- Michele Mariana & Wilbur Vincent as The Mysterious Stranger
- Wally Newman as Captain Stormfield
- Tim Conner as Three-Headed Alien
- Todd Tolces as Saint Peter
- Will Vinton as Dan'l Webster
- Billy Victor as God
- Compton Downs as Injun Joe
- Gary Thompson Baby Cain
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References [edit]
- ^ Albert Bigelow Paine. "Mark Twain, a Biography, Chapter 282 "Personal Memoranda"". Retrieved August 23, 2012.
- ^ Albert Bigelow Paine. "Mark Twain, a Biography, Chapter 293 "The Return to the Invisible"". Retrieved August 23, 2012.
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