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David Copperfield

Screen version of the Dickens classic. Young David's happy childhood is blighted when his widowed mother remarries. Starring Edna May Oliver.

A memorable screen version of the Dickens classic. Young David's happy childhood is blighted when his widowed mother remarries and his brutish stepfather dispatches him to a grim school, and then sets him to work in a warehouse. Eventually David resolves to run away to find his only surviving relative, a daunting old aunt who is only a dim and forbidding memory.

2 hours, 5 minutes

Last on

Fri 30 Dec 201109:00

Credits

RoleContributor
Aunt BetseyEdna May Oliver
Mrs CopperfieldElizabeth Allan
Dan PeggottyLionel Barrymore
SteerforthHugh Williams
Mrs GummidgeUna O'Connor
DirectorGeorge Cukor

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