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Posts Tagged "Charles Dickens"
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Nicholas Nickleby *** (1947, Derek Bond, Cedric Hardwicke, Stanley Holloway, Bernard Miles, Aubrey Woods, Sally Ann Howes, Jill Balcon, Alfred Drayton) – Classic Movie Review 2718
Charles Dickens’s tale of the young 19th-century English schoolmaster Nicholas Nickleby, who ends up with no source of income after his father dies and leaves his family destitute, is surprisingly flatly retold in director Alberto Cavalcanti’s […]
Oliver Twist ** (2005, Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley, Harry Eden, Edward Hardwicke, Leanne Rowe, Jamie Foreman, Jeremy Swift) – Classic Movie Review 2686
Let’s Twist again! Or maybe not? Producer-director Roman Polanski comes up with a disappointment in 2005 – a pedestrian, plodding and uninspired movie version of the classic Charles Dickens tale, but nevertheless with some excellent […]
Great Expectations ***** (1946, John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager, Valerie Hobson, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Alec Guinness, Martita Hunt, Francis L Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 843
Director David Lean’s truly great, double Oscar-winning 1946 version of the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations is still the best version on film. It is even perhaps the best Dickens movie ever. The famous story centres on the […]
Great Expectations (1998, Ethan Hawke) Classic Film Review 842
Here’s director Alfonso (Gravity) Cuarón’s flashily filmed 1998 American revised and modernised version of the Charles Dickens novel, aimed accurately in style and tone at pop-video teenagers. There’s surprising, but largely successful casting in Ethan […]
The Invisible Woman ** (2013, Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas) – Movie Review
Hard Times with Dickens. Ralph Fiennes directs himself as Charles Dickens, who at the height of his career meets and falls for a younger woman, Ellen ‘Nelly’ Ternan (Felicity Jones), who becomes his secret mistress up […]
A Christmas Carol **** (1984, George C Scott, Anthony Walters, David Warner, Susannah York, Frank Finlay, Angela Pleasence, Edward Woodward) – Classic Movie Review 556
A stupendous George C Scott pulls all the stops out as Ebenezer Scrooge in this impressive 1984 American movie of Charles Dickens’s much-filmed yarn A Christmas Carol. ‘God bless us, every one!’ Director Clive Donner’s […]
A Christmas Carol **** (1938, Reginald Owen, Ann Rutherford, Lionel Braham, D’Arcy Corrigan, Terry Kilburn, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart) – Classic Movie Review 555
Director Edwin L Marin’s treasured antique American 1938 production of the Charles Dickens Christmas favourite A Christmas Carol is just right – warm, cosy and comforting. With a short running time of 70 minutes, it […]