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Posts Tagged "Charles Dickens"
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood * (1993, Robert Powell, Nanette Newman, Gemma Craven, Jonathan Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 10,408
Writer-director Timothy Forder’s 1993 British film The Mystery of Edwin Drood stars Robert Powell, who is ideally cast but strangely subdued – exactly the wrong mode for this Grand Guignol mystery thriller – as Jasper […]
The Personal History of David Copperfield ** (2019, Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton, Peter Capaldi, Ben Whishaw) – Movie Review
Tilda Swinton and Hugh Laurie run away with the acting honours in co-writer / director Armando Iannucci’s misguided reimagining of the Charles Dickens classic novel as a raucous romp, with Dev Patel working hard, earnestly […]
Little Dorrit **** (1987, Derek Jacobi, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Sarah Pickering,) – Classic Movie Review 9263
Director Christine Edzard’s rich 1987 film Little Dorrit is a deservedly praised, huge-canvas two-part film of Charles Dickens’s romantic drama/ social satire about good Samaritan Arthur Clennam (Derek Jacobi), who returns to England after 20 […]
David Copperfield *** (1970, Robin Phillips, Susan Hampshire, Edith Evans, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier) – Classic Movie Review 6976
The resounding performances from the great British thespians of the day give director Delbert Mann’s atmospheric 1970 British TV movie version of the Charles Dickens classic novel David Copperfield a big lift. Robin Phillips is […]
The Man Who Invented Christmas * (2017, Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce) – Movie Review
I’ve just opened my Time Out and I’m in shock. They gave The Man Who Invented Christmas FOUR STARS! So I’ve got to say it: ‘Bah, humbug!’ The Man Who Invented Christmas is a well meaning […]
The Pickwick Papers **** (1952, James Hayter, James Donald, Nigel Patrick, Donald Wolfit, Hermione Gingold, Kathleen Harrison, Alexander Gauge, Joyce Grenfell, Harry Fowler) – Classic Movie Review 2796
Writer-director Noel Langley conscientiously works Charles Dickens’s novel over as a jolly 1952 British comedy film. It offers a big fat star part as Mr Pickwick that might have been tailor-made in the first place […]
Nicholas Nickleby **** (2002, Charlie Hunnam, Jamie Bell, Christopher Plummer) – Classic Movie Review 2719
Charles Dickens’s tale of a young schoolmaster Nicholas Nickleby (Charlie Hunnam), who joins a band of entertainers to support his family after being deprived of his fortune by his wicked uncle Ralph (Christopher Plummer), is […]