The Adventures of Mark Twain

He was a riverboat pilot, reporter, penniless prospector, Civil War dropout, would-be entrepreneur, loving family man, world traveler, pomposity burster and raconteur. It turns out the man who created adventures for Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and a Connecticut Yankee led a mighty adventurous life himself.

"Truth is a very valuable thing," says Fredric March's Mark Twain. "I believe we should be economical with it." And that sets the tone for what follows: a lovingly crafted Hollywood-ized biopic tracing the immortal humorist's life from Hannibal boyhood to Big River exploits to global literary lion and more.

Riverboat's a-comin’, hop aboard – with Tom, Huck, Jim and above all, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the colorful gent who earned fame under the pen name of Mark Twain.  This vivid biographical portrait earned three Oscar nominations.