Norman Taurog
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It’s a professionally done tale of the uplifting variety—no different, at bottom, than when Cary Grant and Betsy Drake adopted sullen, physically-challenged Clifford Tatum Jr. and taught him how to be a part of a family in Room for One More (1952).
The Goonies (1985)
Directed by Richard Donner
influenced by The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
Plot
Its story is simply an updating of the cave sequences from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
What is this? Elvis in “Speedway”? That 1968 turkey apparently is Kosinski’s inspiration for how to shoot on-track combat…
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Directed by Peter Weir
influenced by The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
Themes
In other words, it’s either The Adventures of Tom Sawyer or Dead Poets Society.
In the bland 1948 MGM Rodgers and Hart biopic Words And Music, in which Mickey Rooney played the wayward lyricist, Tom Drake’s Richard Rodgers turns to the camera to apologise for the lack of drama in the story that will follow.