At 10:23 AM 9/14/98 -0500, Hal Bush wrote: <snip> >Which film adaptations of Twain works do LIST members find to be the best/ >most faithful/ most authentic to the spirit of Mark Twain? That's easy. None of them have been faithful or authentic renditions of Twain's books. I admit, I haven't seen many of the older films (say pre-1950's stuff), so cannot comment on them. But the recent ones--ugh!--not funny; too interested in political correctness--I think I rewound the last one after ten minutes. There was a (I think) a clay-mation version of *Captain Stormfield's ...." which was okay, and had a funny line at the end about naked men having very little influence in society. But I don't expect that either TV or cinema will ever make a decent Twain movie. It's just not in the cards. Cordially, Vern P.S. I'd love to have someone show me wrong on the above.