Tom Sawyer

En doble programa con Little Mary Sunshine (1916).

One of the few surviving films of doomed director William Desmond Taylor, this is surely the most realistic version of the popular Mark Twain classic. Publicity claimed that the film was shot in Hannibal, Missouri, and it sure does look like it. Everything has an authentic 19th-century feel to it, and Jack Pickford is a natural as Tom Sawyer. He's grubby, awkward and practically a juvenile delinquent, but with a streak of real humanity within him. That's exactly how Twain wrote the character.