Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (1982)

Director
Dick Lowry

Main cast
Anthony Michael Hall; Patrick Creadon; Anthony James; Allyn Ann McLerie; Ed Begley Jr.

Genres
Family, TV Movie, Adventure

Description
The adventures and misadventures of Tom and Huck on the Mississippi River in Missouri with their involvement when they fall in with a gang of con artists, take up with a ragtag circus, help a freed slave buy his sister's freedom, and then see a dastardly villain get his.


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