Tom Sawyer
This much-laundered adaptation of Mark Twain's *** Sawyer was first presented as a 90-minute TV special on March 23, 1973. Josh Albee is ***, Jeff Tyler is Huckleberry Finn, Jane Wyatt is Aunt Polly and Buddy Ebsen is Muff Potter—all acceptable but antiseptic shadows of the Twain original. Only Vic Morrow, oozing venom from every orifice as Injun Joe, conveys the raw energy of ...