The Adventures of Pinocchio (1972 film) The Adventures of Pinocchio (1972 film) The Adventures of Pinocchio () is a 1972 Italian miniseries directed by Luigi Comencini. Based on the Carlo Collodi's novel with the same name, the miniseries got a large critical success, and had an average of twenty-one and a half million viewers during its first airing on Rai 1. A 135-minute edit of the miniseries was released to theatrical film markets in Europe the same year. Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and when trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastero
The Adventures of Harry Richmond Courtney, writing in the "Fortnightly Review" in 1886, complained: On the other hand Arthur Symons found it "rousing, enthralling, exciting, full of poetry, and a serious and masterly study in character", and Max Beerbohm enthused: "What a book! What swiftness and beauty and strength! It is the flight of a young golden eagle high across seas and mountains." Gore Vidal claimed that Mark Twain enjoyed and "stole" the characters of the Duke and the Dauphin in "Huckleberry Finn" from "Harry Richmond", and noted: The Adventures of Harry Richmond The Adventures of Harry Richmond (1870–71) is a romance by British author