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David Copperfield (1969)
Directed by Delbert Mann
Overview
A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens’ classic novel, turns Dickens’ picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David remembers his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school.
Length 118 minutes
Actors
Laurence Olivier | Richard Attenborough | Cyril Cusack | Michael Redgrave | Anna Massey | Sinéad Cusack | James Donald | Ralph Richardson | Wendy Hiller | Corin Redgrave | Pamela Franklin | Susan Hampshire | James Hayter | Ron Moody | Edith Evans | Megs Jenkins | Emlyn Williams | Liam Redmond | Isobel Black | Robin Phillips | Helen Cotterill | Nicholas Pennell | Andrew McCulloch | Jeffrey Chandler | Alastair Mackenzie | Christopher Moran | Donald Layne-Smith | Kim Craik