Film Forum

U.K., 1947
Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti
With Derek Bond, Cedric Hardwicke, Sally Ann Howes, Sybil Thorndike
Approx. 108 min. DCP.

Carefully condensed version of Dickens' classic (as opposed to the two-day stage production of the '80s) with Derek Bond as the eponymous hero, the great Dame Sybil Thorndike (Shaw's original Saint Joan) as Mrs. Squeers, and Cedric Hardwicke as the villainous Ralph.

Reviews

“Amusing as a chromo of Dickensian life.”
– Bosley Crowther, The New York Times