David Copperfield (1969)

Drama

TV Movie

Overview.

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.

Top Cast

Richard Attenborough

Mr. Tungay

Cyril Cusack

Barkis

Edith Evans

Aunt Betsy Trotwood

Pamela Franklin

Dora Spenlow

Susan Hampshire

Agnes Wickfield

Wendy Hiller

Mrs. Micawber