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Although Judge Thatcher plays a minor role in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, he plays a substantial role in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Judge Thatcher shares responsibility for Huckleberry Finn with the Widow Douglas, and it is to Judge Thatcher that Huckleberry Finn signs over his fortune in order to keep it from his father.
Tom Sawyer is a 2000 American animated musical adventure film directed by Paul Sabella and Phil Mendez. ... Judge Thatcher sentences Mutt to be hanged, but Huck and ...
Meanwhile, the judge is alerted by the sheriff that Joe ended up killing his partner. Huck, who secretly attends the festival, overhears all this and goes after Tom. Tom and Becky eventually stumble upon Injun Joe in McDougal's Cave. He traps them, but Tom and Becky manage to escape. Tom and Becky later discover the spot where Joe hid his treasure.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (also simply known as Tom Sawyer) is a novel by Mark Twain published on 9 June 1876 about a boy, Tom Sawyer, growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the town of St. Petersburg, which is based on Hannibal, Missouri , where Twain lived as a boy. [ 2 ]
Huck returns the stolen gold to Mary Jane and she kisses him, telling him he's her "guardian angel." Flustered, Huck rushes off to his raft, telling Tom and the Judge he's heading west. Tom tries to stop him by telling him his father's body was found floating in the river. Huck departs nevertheless, assuring Tom and the Judge that he'll be back.
Tom finds a crevice that's big enough to escape through. News of Tom and Becky's return lifts the spirits of the townspeople. Judge Thatcher has the cave entrance sealed with a heavily barred steel door; a trapped Injun Joe starves to death inside. Tom leads Huck back to the cave to find the treasure box in Injun's Joe's lair.
Tom Sawyer is the 1973 American musical film adaptation of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and was directed by Don Taylor.The film was produced by Reader's Digest in collaboration with Arthur P. Jacobs, and its screenplay and songs were written by both of the Sherman Brothers, Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman.
The fictional character's name may have been derived from a jolly and flamboyant chief named Tom Sawyer, with whom Twain was acquainted in San Francisco, California, while Twain (which was the assumed pen-name of the author born Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was employed as a reporter at The San Francisco Call.