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1947

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The classic Charles Dicken's tale of 'Nicholas Nickleby,' a man who is deprived of his inheritance and travels to seek his fortune with a group of gypsies. Read more

Starring	Athene Seyler, Jill Balcon, Alfred Drayton, Derek Bond
Director	Alberto Cavalcanti
Genres	Drama

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Nicholas Nickleby

The classic Charles Dicken's tale of 'Nicholas Nickleby,' a man who is deprived of his inheritance and travels to seek his fortune with a group of gypsies.

Starring	Athene Seyler, Jill Balcon, Alfred Drayton, Derek Bond, Mary Merrall, Cyril Fletcher, Aubrey Woods, Cathleen Nesbitt, Bernard Miles, Vera Pearce, Cedric Hardwicke, Sybil Thorndike, Stanley Holloway, Sally Ann Howes
Director	Alberto Cavalcanti
Studio	ELEVATION
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 43 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1947 To Rent: DVD: 13 Nov 2006

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- For a director who dabbled in the avant-garde, Cavalcanti makes surprisingly little of the surreal possibilities of... read more on Time Out
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  Inspiration for Blackadder
  
  Look, this is no blockbuster in the BBC flashing cravats style. Moody, shadowy, and above all rather Victorian. Which is just as well, in fact being in black ... read more »
  
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  Nick
  
  Not bad. Very faithful to the book. As with all Dickens' films, incredibly sentimental but full of quirky characters.
  
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  - 10 Aug 2008 at 12:18
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  NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
  
  Worth a look if you like old back &white movies.
  
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  - 29 Nov 2006 at 09:24
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  not the recent version!
  
  This is a black and white version. Quite good, but I thought I'd ordered the version that was in the cinema 2 years ago which was superb. This was a ... read more »
  
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