Little Eddie Hodges plays the lead in this, the second to last film directed by the great Micheal Curtiz.
Boxer Archie Moore gives a very good accounting of himself too in the role of the runaway slave, Jim but Tony Randall nearly steals the show as The King, a con-man who gets Huck into trouble. His partner is played by Mickey Shaughnessy and Neville Brand plays Huck's father!
This a great version of this classic American story and also features: John Carridine & Royal Dano as slave hunters, Buster Keaton & Andy Devine as circus owners, Sterling Holloway, Patty McCormack, Judy Canova, Josephine Hutchinson, Parley Baer, Harry Dean Stanton and Finley Currie.
Star Hodges retired a few years later. Moore went back to boxing and many more versions followed....
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