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.


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Richard Attenborough
Mr. Tungay

Cyril Cusack
Barkis

Edith Evans
Aunt Betsy Trotwood

Pamela Franklin
Dora Spenlow

Susan Hampshire
Agnes Wickfield

Wendy Hiller
Mrs. Micawber

Ron Moody
Uriah Heep

Laurence Olivier
Mr. Creakle

Robin Phillips
David Copperfield