Before VCR's, my father on Fridays would visit the Montgomery County Library in Dayton, Ohio, after work and come home with canvas bags of 16 mm film reels that we older kids learned how to thread into the 16 mm projector he "borrowed" from work then we'd flip the couch to face the wall with the projector behind us and watch classic oldies like this film that I grew to love the more I saw it. The other reviews here shed great historical light on this film but all I know is Tom Sawyer, Sidney and Aunt Polly as portrayed in this film were a joy to watch whenever dad brought this movie home for family movie night among many others rather than breaking the bank by taking his eight children out to the full-price movies. Years later, I read my First Edition Library replica copy of the first edition of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" to revisit and add to the memories I had of watching this film as a child.
