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The personal history, adventures, experience, & observation of David Copperfield the younger / a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; by Charles Dickens ; adaptation by Hugh Walpole ; screen play by Howard Estabrook ; produced by David O. Selznick ; directed by George Cukor.
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- Format:
- Video
- Standardized Title:
- David Copperfield (Motion picture : 1935)
- Language:
- English
- French
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Film adaptations.
- Dickens, Charles.
- Orphans--England--Drama.
- Orphans.
- Young men--England--Drama.
- Young men.
- Child labor--England--Drama.
- Child labor.
- England--Social life and customs--19th century--Drama.
- England.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Melodramas (Motion pictures)
- Feature films -- United States.
- Melodrama.
- Melodrama
- Bildungsromans
- Coming-of-age films
- Drama
- Feature films
- Fiction films
- Film adaptations
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Feature films.
- Bildungsromans.
- Coming-of-age films.
- Film adaptations.
- Fiction films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 131 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Personal history, adventures, experience, and observation of David Copperfield the younger
- David Copperfield
- Place of Publication:
- Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2006]
- Language Note:
- English dialogue with optional English, French, Portuguese, or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital surround, dual layer.
- digital video surround
- videodisc
- DVD
- video file DVD
- Summary:
- David Copperfield enjoys an idyllic life with his gentle, widowed mother and his loving nurse, Peggotty. Then tragedy strikes when Mr. Murdstone weds David's mother and drives her to an early grave. Despised by his stepfather, the boy is forced to live in misery and poverty until he runs away to throw himself upon the mercy of his eccentric aunt. Charles Dickens's classic tale of growing up.
- Participant:
- W.C. Fields, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Madge Evans, Edna May Oliver, Lewis Stone, Frank Lawton, Freddie Bartholomew, Elizabeth Allan, Roland Young, Basil Rathbone, Elsa Lanchester.
- Credits:
- Photographed by Oliver T. Marsh ; film editor, Robert J. Kern ; musical score by Herbert Stothart.
- Notes:
- Based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1935.
- Special features: 2 vintage technicolor musical shorts: "Pirate party on Catalina Isle" and "Two hearts in wax time"; classic cartoon: "Poor little me"; audio-only bonus: "Leo is on the air" radio promo; theatrical trailer.
- Contains:
- Pirate party on Catalina Isle.
- Two hearts in wax time.
- Poor little me.
- ISBN:
- 1419838210
- 9781419838217
- OCLC:
- 71794121
- Publisher Number:
- 012569793668
- 79366 Warner Home Video
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