The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a 1960 film directed by Michael Curtiz

Michael Curtiz

Michael Curtiz was an Academy award winning Hungarian-American film director. He had early creditsas Mihály Kertész and Michael Kertész...

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Based on the famous Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...

 novel of the same name

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written in the vernacular, characterized by...

, it was the third sound film version of the story and the second filmed by MGM. The film also boasts several firsts - it was the first adaptation of Huckleberry Finn to be filmed in Cinemascope

CinemaScope

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 and Technicolor

Technicolor

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, and the first film to star Eddie Hodges

Eddie Hodges

Eddie Hodges is a United States former child actor and recording artist who left show business as an adult.-Early life and career:Hodges was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, U.S. Hodges traveled to New York City with his family in 1952...

 and former boxer Archie Moore

Archie Moore

Archie Moore, born Archibald Lee Wright , was light heavyweight world boxing champion who had one of the longest professional careers in the history of that sport....

 in leading roles (as Huck and Jim). Tony Randall

Tony Randall

Tony Randall was a U.S. actor, comic, producer and director.-Early years:Randall was born Arthur Leonard Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Julia and Mogscha Rosenberg, an art and antiques dealer...

 also appeared in the film (and got top billing) and Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...

 had a bit role in what proved to be his final film for his old studio, MGM.

Some scenes in the film were shot on the Sacramento River

Sacramento River

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, which doubled for the Mississippi River

Mississippi River

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