Word: finn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HUCKLEBERRY FINN...
...safe to assume that Louisa May Alcott would have approved of this new screen version of Huckleberry Finn. "If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses," she said about his raffish novel, "he had better stop writing." Seeming to take the prim spirit of her outrage for their shaping force, the people involved with this movie have sanitized Huck's language and turned him into a nearly perfect little gent...
...requisite banality, although there is considerable strength in Paul Winfield's performance as Jim and some smoothly flowing, elegant camera work by Laszlo Kovacs. This current adaptation (turned out under the auspices of the Reader's Digest) represents at least the fourth effort to bring Huckleberry Finn to the screen, and once again Huck has been smothered by the pasty good taste from which he always tried to es cape. There is no reason why a funny, fierce movie could not be made from the book. For the present, though, you still do not know Huck...
...that dish up undigested gobbets of Freud liberally sauced with prurience and self-pity. The book is a brief and graceful, often witty memoir of Morris' inner and outer life. The outer life proceeds from a happy childhood in an artistic upper-class Welsh family (he read Huck Finn, cherished animals, and was taught to "wash my hands before tea"), through years as a choirboy at Christ Church College in Oxford, some tune at Lancing, a public school (which James hated), through Oxford and the army (which he enjoyed), as well as work on the Guardian and the Times...
...Quakers took the last two singles matches each in straight sets. Steve Knittle downed Hugh Hyde, a junior from Far Hills, N.J., 7-5, 6-2, and Andy Finn edged Krusen...