The Adventures of Mark Twain (DVD)

He was a riverboat pilot, reporter, penniless prospector, Civil War dropout, would-be entrepreneur, loving family man, world traveler, pomposity buster 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 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.

Starring: Fredric March, Alexis Smith, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, C. Aubrey Smith, John Carradine, Bill Henry, Robert Barrat, Walter Hampden, Joyce Reynolds, Whitford Kane, Percy Kilbride, Nana Bryant, Hooper Atchley, Frank Wilcox, Jackie Brown, Dickie Jones, Kay Johnson, Michael Miller, Russell Gleason, Christian Rub, Harry Woods, Victor Kilian, Eddie Waller, Earle Dewey, Sammy McKim, Harry Worth, Lee "Lasses" White, Ernie Adams, William Gould, Arthur Aylsworth, Jack Mower, Frank Mayo, Lew Kelly, Paul Panzer, Monte Blue, Paul Newlan, Ernest Whitman, Emmett Smith, Pat O'Malley, Frank Pharr, Norman Willis, Dick Elliott, Bud Osborne, Thurston Hall, Chester Conklin, John "Skins" Miller, Willie Fung, Creighton Hale, Fred Kelsey, Oliver Prickett, Leo White, Roland Drew, Walter Soderling, Sailor Vincent, Frank Darien, Frank Reicher, Douglas Wood, Willie Best, Burr Caruth, Brandon Hurst, Davison Clark, Harry Holman, Frank Dae, Francis Pierlot, Joseph Crehan, Jessie Grayson, George Lessey, Dorothy Vaughan, Lynne Baggett, Joyce Tucker, Charles Waldron, Paul Scardon, Charles Irwin, Ross Ford, Rosina Galli, George Sherwood, Charles Marsh, Charles McAvoy, Jim Farley, Cliff Saum, Henry Blair, Bobby Larson, Peter Lawford, Robert Herrick, Charles Peck, George Reed, Sam McDaniel, Dudley Dickerson, Libby Taylor, Lillian Randolph, Mildred Gover, Richard Kipling, Bill Edwards, William Haade, Bill Kennedy, Stuart Holmes, Jack Gardner, Jack Gargan, Francis Sayles, George Humbert, Robert Homans, George Haywood, Betty Roadman, Joan Winfield, Sarah Edwards, Leah Baird