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Screenplay by ROBERT B. SHERMAN and RICHARD M.SHERMAN
Other refinements abound. "There's no way in 1974 we could give a black man the precise dialogue Twain gave him," commented co-Scenarist Richard Sherman. "First of all, nobody in the audience would understand him if he used the stereotypical dialogue-'Ah's gwine down de ribah'-so we had to handle the language and the attitude. We had to sustain the dignity of the man." He and his brother Robert proceeded to elevate the slave's image by altering his name (he is Nigger Jim no longer, just plain Jim) and giving...
Along with the script, the Sherman brothers (Mary Poppins, Tom Sawyer) have supplied a typically cankerous score. Director J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone) performs his task with the 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...
...near Griffith Park on the day of the shootings. "We're looking like hell," said William Sullivan, FBI chief in the city, "but we don't know how they departed the area." The last reliable sighting of the threesome was on May 19 in Sherman Oaks, a suburban community of Los Angeles...
...Elissa R. Henken '74 of North House and Pleasantville, N.Y. and Jacquelyn S. Swearingen '74 of Lowell House and Pittsburgh, Pa. Anne D. Montgomery '74 of Dunster House and Greenville, S.C. won the Ireland Travelling fellowship and Jane E. Tewksbury '74 of North House and Saugus won the Sherman fellowship...