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...long been the province of Robert Herridge, 42, once called by Variety "the literary conscience of the medium." Using no sets but considerable imagination, he originated WCBS's Camera Three seven years ago, did productions of Hamlet, Moby Dick, The Heart of Darkness, a ten-part Huckleberry Finn. As a summer producer for the once-memorable Studio One, he did the fascinating Mr. Arcularis, by Poet Conrad Aiken, and Steinbeck's Flight...
...moved there in the late 1940s to open a store. An endlessly fascinating playground is revealed to him by his Indian chum, Buckety, who first greets him: "We can be brothers and cross ourselves with clam juice and chicken blood to prove it." Woven into the boys' Huck Finn adventures is a darker tale of the Indians' past. From his grandfather, Jerrod learns of the Indians' once robust life, of how they hunted whales in canoes and dragged the carcasses back to shore as the symbol of their power...
...Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...
...movie starts out pretty much the way the novel does. Huck Finn (Eddie Hodges), the son of a town drunk in northeastern Missouri, gets awful sick of the "dismal, regular and decent" widow who has taken him in and is trying to "sivilize" him. So one day he cunningly fakes his own murder and goes poling merrily downriver with a runaway slave named Jim (tolerably well played by Light-Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore). But while the story goes down the river, the picture heads up the creek. The director and scriptwriter seemed determined to reduce Mark Twain's Huckleberry...
...matter of fact, persons attempting to find Huck Finn in this picture will be, to say the least, disappointed. As written, Huck was a young river rat who lived in a wharf barrel and smelt like his surroundings. As played by Actor Hodges, a stage child who got his start on Broadway in The Music Man, the prototype of frontier boyhood is a freckled-faced mother's darling who reeks of soap and suburban charm, and who looks exactly the way Producer Goldwyn wanted him to look: like "a Missouri Peter Pan." But Finn fans will forget this minor...