| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White John Hughes Fred M. MacLean |
| Best Effects, Special Effects Paul Detlefsen (photographic) John Crouse (photographic) Nathan Levinson (sound) | |||
| Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Max Steiner | |||
Warner Bros.
Directed by Irving Rapper
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)
Long-winded biography of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as author and humorist Mark Twain, from his boyhood days on the Mississippi to his around-the-world speaking tour as essentially a stand-up comic. The film tries to include too many details of his life and suffers from an episodic plot. Cliche's are used to fill in the details, and the details are what should be the most interesting. Fredric March does his best in the title role, but when old Mark Twain's one-liners become tired and predictable you know something is wrong.
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