Wissenswertes

No sound stages were used in this movie.

The water at the waterfall had to be pumped in as the water source isn't as free-flowing as it was in the past, and can be visited by tourists today at Owen's Creek on the Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi.

Jason Robards played Mark Twain himself in Mark Twain und ich (1991).

Robbie Coltrane claimed in an interview that the studio renamed the movie "The Adventures of Huck Finn" because focus groups had told them that "Huckleberry" sounded too Southern.

The movie contains no digital effects.

Stephen Sommers: the man silhouetted against the fog banging a pot at 39:27 on the DVD.