The Adventures of Mark Twain

The film is about the life of Samuel Clemens. The world came to know him as Mark Twain. The account begins on the night he was born. Halley’s comet was in the sky that night. His childhood is spent in Hannibal. He grows up beside the Mississippi. Later he becomes a riverboat pilot. One day he sees a photograph of a woman. Her name is Olivia Langdon. He decides he will marry her. He leaves the river and goes to Nevada to look for gold. During the Civil War he begins to write, and that is where the writing life opens. The account runs to 1910. Fredric March and Alexis Smith appear in the hundred and thirty minute film, an American production Irving Rapper finished in 1944.