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The Adventures Of Mark Twain

1944, Movie, NR, 130 mins

The Adventures Of Mark Twain: Review

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Cliched but engaging film biography, with a solid performance by Fredric March as the young adventurer who left Hannibal, Missouri, to learn the Mississippi River's tricky ways as a navigator. In one scene, the young navigator is attempting to steer a riverboat through fogbound waters when he hears a deckhand, after throwing out a weight to determine the water's depth, shout: "Mark the twain [twine--the rope tied about the weight] 15 [feet]." Thus the nom de plume of one of America's finest writers and humorists. Sharp dialogue sparks the predictable story line as Twain moves from the Mississippi to the West as a newspaper editor, then on to Gold Rush California, where he writes the short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," the success of which launches his literary career. The episodic film chronicles Twain's meetings with the greats of his day (U.S. Grant, Bret Harte, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, etc.), as well as his courtship of and marriage to Olivia Langdon (Alexis Smith), as it follows Twain from young manhood to old age. March imbues his character with quiet nobility, projecting the forceful, courageous soul of the immortal Twain. What's missing is the vinegary, difficult side of Twain that made him as unforgettable a man as he was a writer. leave a comment
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