The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985 film)
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The Adventures of Mark Twain, also known as Comet Quest in the United Kingdom, is a 1985 American independent[5] stop-motion claymation fantasy film directed by Will Vinton and starring James Whitmore. It received a limited theatrical release in May 1985 and was released on DVD in January 2006[6] and again as a collector's edition in 2012 on DVD and Blu-ray.
The Adventures of Mark Twain | |
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Directed by | Will Vinton |
Screenplay by | Susan Shadburne[1] |
Based on | The works of Mark Twain |
Produced by | Will Vinton |
Starring | James Whitmore |
Cinematography | Bruce McKean |
Edited by | Kelley Baker Michael Gall Will Vinton |
Music by | Billy Scream |
Production companies | Will Vinton Productions Harbour Town Films |
Distributed by | Clubhouse Pictures |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1.5 million[3] |
Box office | $849,915[4] |
The film features a series of vignettes extracted from several of Mark Twain's works, woven together by a plot that follows 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 to various adventures, encountering characters from Twain's stories along the way.[7]