The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985 film) The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985 film) The Adventures of Mark Twain (released in the United Kingdom as Comet Quest) is a 1985 American stop motion claymation animated fantasy film directed by Will Vinton. It received a limited theatrical release in May 1985. It was released on DVD in January 2006. The film features a series of vignettes extracted from several of Mark Twain's works, built around a plot that features Twain's attempts to keep his "appointment" with Halley's Comet. Twain and three children, Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, travel on an airship between various adventures. After having
Mark Twain in Nevada host of old friends that rejoice in your success." Historian James Edward Caron notes that outside of his friends and the staff of the "Enterprise" many were upset at "Clemen's unforgivable habit of conflating news narratives with fictional narratives, presented with the supremely blithe attitude of his alter ego Mark Twain. Some simply could not forgive Clemens for being a newspaper reporter who seemed completely indifferent to telling the truth". Among those expressing such sentiments at the time was the "Gold Hill Evening News" which was among the papers glad to see him leave. In an editorial appearing on May