# Tom Sawyer added to the League **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 30, 2004, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-sawyer-added-to-the-league/226733 "2004-01-30T09:19:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![thegreyathena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@thegreyathena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thegreyathena)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-sawyer-added-to-the-league/226733/21 "2004-02-03T03:59:39Z")
> [@Northern Piper](#): > > Same thing happened in _The African Queen_. In the book, Bogie’s character is a cockney. Kate Hepburn could do an English accent (heck, her normal accent sounded English!), but they wanted Bogie to sound like Bogie, so they made him a Canadian. I was just going to say the same thing. And for the longest time, I thought Katharine Hepburn _was_ British - but now that I know more upper-class Bostonians of the right age, I understand. They did at least know that Allnut couldn’t be an American - the story definitely loses something if it’s not two people fighting for the Empire together. ---
**Author:** ![Scorpio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Scorpio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scorpio)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-sawyer-added-to-the-league/226733/22 "2004-02-03T05:51:34Z")
> [@TOTBP](#): > > However, I’ve heard that the film did very well in Australia, and that there’s been talk of a sequel in reference to that anomaly. (Don’t ask where I heard that.) Oh, hey, don’t be blaming us for any possible sequel. Even if it did do well in Australia (and I don’t know that it did - I certainly didn’t see it and I sat through Underworld), I doubt very much that movie-makers would seriously plan a sequel based on a market the size of Australia. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tom-sawyer-added-to-the-league/226733.md?page=1)