Rent Pickwick Papers (1952)
3.6 of 5 from 60 ratings
1h 49min
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- Synopsis:
- The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find. In the course of their travels, they repeatedly encounter the friendly but disreputable Mr. Jingle, who becomes a continual source of trouble for all who know him. Pickwick himself is the victim of a number of misunderstandings that bring him both embarrassment and problems with the law.
- Actors:
- James Hayter, James Donald, Nigel Patrick, Joyce Grenfell, Hermione Gingold, Hermione Baddeley, Donald Wolfit, Harry Fowler, Kathleen Harrison, Alexander Gauge, Lionel Murton, Diane Hart, Joan Heal, William Hartnell, Athene Seyler, Sam Costa, George Robey, Gerald Campion, Walter Fitzgerald, Mary Merrall
- Directors:
- Noel Langley
- Producers:
- Noel Langley, George Minter
- Writers:
- Charles Dickens, Noel Langley
- Others:
- Beatrice Dawson
- Studio:
- Renown Pictures
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy
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Classic Dickens - Pickwick Papers review by Steve
Delightful adaptation of Charles Dickens' debut novel; a picaresque adventure which rambles through all classes of Victorian society. There's a beautiful period recreation and a long cast list of British character actors playing cameos of classic Dickens caricatures. This might be the most English film ever made.
The Pickwick Society is a club of gentlemen oddballs who travel through town and country in search of unusual encounters. Japes and scrapes. James Hayter gets a rare chance to lead and he is uncannily perfect as Samuel Pickwick. His good companions travel from inn to coaching station, and fight a duel, or are sent to debtors prison...
... or many other idiosyncrasies of fate. But mostly they keep getting entangled in the sly intrigue of Mr. Jingle who isn't quite the hail fellow that the Pickwick Society is looking for. He is played with splendid panache by Nigel Patrick.
The multi-facets of mid nineteenth century life are glimpsed through a distorting squint of playful whimsy. Strangers meet and are soon clanking tankards together. It's not by any means the real world, but it charmingly captures the comic élan of Dickens' England. Note- the film was made in b&w but a colourised version is widely circulated.
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