David Copperfield
- Released on
- Runtime
- 118 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- 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
Director
- Delbert Mann
Producers
- Frederick Brogger
Screenwriter
- Jack Pulman
