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New York opening: 7 Apr 1949. Production Company. Paramount Pictures, Inc. Distribution Company. Paramount Pictures, Inc. Country. United States. Screenplay Information. Based on the novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (New York, 1889).
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. 1949 · 1 hr 47 min. TV-PG. Musicals · Comedy · Kids & Family · Fantasy. When a 20th Century mechanic wakes up from a ...
A Connecticut Yankee is a 1931 American Pre-Code film adaptation of Mark Twain 's 1889 novel, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. It was directed by David Butler to a script by William M. Conselman, Owen Davis, and Jack Moffitt. It was produced by Fox Film Corporation (later 20th Century Fox ), who had earlier produced the 1921 silent ...
Mar 30, 2011 · I think A Connecticut Yankee was probably my favorite Mark Twain work. I was familiar by that time with King Arthur, mostly in the form of T.H. White's The Once and Future King. A Connecticut Yankee was something different -- it confronted Arthurian legend with modernity. Arthur's court as presented in A Connecticut Yankee is a squalid band of ...
Nov 2, 2004 · Penguin, Nov 2, 2004 - Fiction - 384 pages. Mark Twain moves from broad comedy to biting social satire in this literary classic. Cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arthur’s England. After using his knoweldge of an upcoming solar eclipse to escape a death sentence, Hank ...
In A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Hank Morgan travels back in time from nineteenth-century America to sixth-century England, where he becomes the second-most powerful man in King Arthur ’s kingdom. In this position, he tries to single-handedly establish an industrial civilization 13 centuries ahead of its time.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court: Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. With Thomas Mitchell, Boris Karloff, Berry Kroeger, Salem Ludwig. A modern New England man travels back to the days of King Arthur and battles Merlin the Magician.
