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David Copperfield

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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.

Date: 12/01/1969

Rating: 5.4

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, William Lyon Brown

Richard Attenborough