Biografický film zobrazující životní osudy slavného amerického spisovatele Marka Twaina (Fredric March) od jeho mládí, kdy pracoval jako kormidelník na řece Mississippi, až do smrti v roce 1910.
Hrají: Fredric March, Alexis Smith, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, C. Aubrey Smith, John Carradine, William Henry, Robert Barrat, Walter Hampden, .....Joyce Reynolds, Percy Kilbride, Nana Bryant, Joseph Crehan, Peter Lawford, Frank Reicher, Dennis Donnelly, Frank Darien, Creighton Hale, Lloyd Corrigan, Charles Irwin, Diana Barrymore, Brandon Hurst, Ernie Adams, Chester Conklin, Leo White, Eddy Waller, Jack Mower, Kay Johnson, Frank Wilcox, Willie Fung, Fred Kelsey, Dick Elliott, Robert Homans, Harry Tyler, William Haade, Willie Best, William Gould, Sam McDaniel, Pat O'Malley, Dorothy Vaughan, Harry Woods, Harry Holman, Bud Osborne, Lillian Randolph, Sarah Edwards, Frank Hagney, Frank O'Connor, Jack Gardner, Bob Burns, Thurston Hall, Olin Howland, Lee 'Lasses' White, Paul Panzer, Sailor Vincent, Christian Rub, Roland Drew, Lew Kelly, Russell Gleason, Charles McAvoy, Bill Kennedy, Charles Waldron, Dickie Jones, Walter Soderling, Oliver Blake, Dudley Dickerson, George Humbert, Victor Kilian, Paul Newlan, Wheaton Chambers, Jack Gargan, Hooper Atchley, George Reed, Mildred Gover, Libby Taylor, Charles Marsh, Francis Pierlot, Francis Sayles, George Lessey, Lottie Williams, Carol Coombs, Jim Farley, Ross Ford, Davison Clark, Michael Miller, Cliff Saum, Joan Winfield, Count Stefenelli, Billy Lechner, Thomas Martin, Arthur Aylesworth, Ernest Whitman, Charles Peck
Režie: Irving Rapper
Scénář: Alan Le May
Producenti: Jesse L. Lasky
Hudba: Max Steiner
Kamera: Sol Polito, Edward Linden, James Leicester
Střih: Ralph Dawson
Scénografie: John Hughes
Kostýmy a make-up: Perc Westmore, Orry-Kelly, Gordon Bau
Zvuk: Robert B. Lee