The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985 film)

Infobox Film
name = The Adventures of Mark Twain


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caption = Movie poster
director = Will Vinton
producer = Will Vinton
writer = Mark Twain
Susan Shadburne
narrator =
starring = James Whitmore
Gary Krug
Chris Ritchie
Carol Edelman
John Morrison
Will Vinton
Gary Thompson
music = Billy Scream
cinematography =
editing = Kelley Baker
Michael Gall
Ed Geis
Skeets McGrew
Will Vinton
distributor = Atlantic Releasing
released = March, 1985
runtime = 86 minutes
country = USA
language = English
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amg_id = 1:974
imdb_id = 0088678

"The Adventures of Mark Twain", released in the UK as "Comet Quest", is a 1985 stop motion animated film directed by Will Vinton (best known for "The California Raisins" animation). After many years in television syndication, it was released on DVD in January 2006. The film features a series of vignettes extracted from several of Mark Twain's works, built around a plot that features Twain's attempts to keep his "appointment" with Halley's Comet. The concept was inspired by a famous quote by the author:

:"I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"

Included are sketches taken from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Mysterious Stranger, The Damned Human Race, Injun Joe (briefly), The Diary of Adam and Eve (Letters from the Earth), Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven and a rendering of Twain's first story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.

ee also

*List of stop-motion films
*List of animated feature films