The Best Man Wins, directed by John Sturges, was distributed by Columbia in 1948. This film version of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” stars Edgar Buchanan and Anna Lee.
Learning Garden Films released an animated version of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” in 1987.
Mark Twain’s success as a satirist and sketch-writer was further established by his 1869 book The Innocents Abroad; or, The New Pilgrim’s Progress, in which he wrote of his experiences and observations while traveling through the Middle East and Europe with a group of well-to-do Americans.
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