Lewis Sargent (Huck) and Gordon Griffith (Tom) were child actors who already had a long and successful career and were well known to the public.

[2] As described in a film publication,[3] Huckleberry Finn (Sargent) has been adopted by the Widow Douglas (K. Griffith) who plans to "civilize" him.

With Tom Sawyer (G. Griffith) he forms a robber gang, and in a cave, the local boys take an oath to stick together.

Duke (Humphrey) and King (Bates), two broken-down actors fleeing a crowd they had fooled with a mock theatrical performance, join them.

She informs the Phelps of Huck's actual identity and takes him back, cured of his wandering, to the Widow Douglas.