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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
Richard Attenborough | Cyril Cusack | Edith Evans | Pamela Franklin | Susan Hampshire | Wendy Hiller | Ron Moody | Laurence Olivier | Robin Phillips | Michael Redgrave | Ralph Richardson | Emlyn Williams | Sinéad Cusack | James Donald | James Hayter | Megs Jenkins | Anna Massey | Andrew McCulloch | Nicholas Pennell | Corin Redgrave | Isobel Black | Liam Redmond | Donald Layne-Smith | Christopher Moran | Jeffrey Chandler | Kim Craik | Helen Cotterill | Alastair Mackenzie