David Copperfield overview
Overall Rating
Total Ratings: 1
Synopsis:
David Copperfield was MGM's major Christmas release for its 1934-1935 season and also the first of producer David O. Selznick's major "literary" films for that studio. While a great deal of editing and streamlining was necessary to distill Charles Dickens' massive novel into 133 minutes of screen time, the end result was so successful that only the nittiest of nitpickers complained about the excised characters and events. Freddie Bartholomew plays the young Copperfield, who, after the death of his mother (Elizabeth Allan), is cruelly mistreated by his stepfather, Mr.
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Movie Details:
- Director: George Cukor
- Studio: MGM
- Year: 1935
- Run Time: 132 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: NR
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Drama
- Filmed in: Available in Colorized Version, B&W
