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David Copperfield
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A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.
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Directed by Delbert Mann
Richard AttenboroughMr. Tungay
Cyril CusackBarkis
Edith EvansAunt Betsy Trotwood
Pamela FranklinDora Spenlow
Susan HampshireAgnes Wickfield
Wendy HillerMrs. Micawber
Ron MoodyUriah Heep
Laurence OlivierMr. Creakle
Robin PhillipsDavid Copperfield
Michael RedgraveDan Peggotty
Ralph RichardsonMr. Micawber
Emlyn WilliamsMr. DickSimilar titles
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CinemaSerfJun 3, 2023
This was never one of my favourite Dickens stories - I always found the title character just a bit , well, wet! Anyway, the really quite mediocre Robin Phillips take the role for this adaptation, and we follow his rather brutal adventures of childhood and early adulthood that see him deal with bullying, beating, extortion and tragedy. As with the book, to which this is fairly faithful, there are quite literally heaps of curious and engaging characters he encounters along the… Read more
way, most notably Sir Ralph Richardson's wonderfully over the top "Micawber", Sir Michael Redgrave's "Peggotty" desperately seeking his errant daughter "Emily" (Sinéad Cusack) and from Ron Roody as the duplicitous, downright nasty piece of work that is "Uriah Heap"! The production is pretty lacklustre. The photography offers us lots of long, moody shots of the contemplative hero on the beach - and the cameraman seems content to try out his new zoom lens just once (or thrice) too often. Malcolm Arnold provides us with an unremarkable score and the whole story irather plods along without much potency. As an introduction to the work of Dickens, it might have a purpose in diverting the viewer to the author's (and his other, better) novels, but a piece of cinema it's little better than a very well cast television movie.