The Mysterious Stranger

Cine Golden Eagle Award

“This adaptation captures Twain’s special spirit.”
- The New York Times

“A first-class treatment in every respect. It has a mysterious substance that is beguiling.”
- San Francisco Chronicle

“Art is art and TV is TV and the Twain meet on PBS. ‘The Mysterious Stranger’ makes for very good television.”
- Chicago Tribune

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Swept back in time on the wings of a dream, young August Feldner finds himself a printer’s apprentice in a 13th century Austrian castle, when into his life comes a mysterious stranger indeed. Named number 44, New Series 864, 962, this unusual new young man attaches himself to the castle’s resident bumbling magician (Fred Gwynne) and proceeds to exhibit magical powers which turn the castle’s inhabitants into a topsy-turvied frenzy as created doubles battle their original selves for control. Filmed on location in Austria, rich with boyish mischief, wonder and adventure, Twain’s Mysterious Stranger comes vividly to life, as after all… “I’m only young, you know. It’s only natural to want to astonish people and show off and be and do all the things a boy likes to do.”

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