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Nicholas Nickleby (1947)
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
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From Time Out Film Guide
For a director who dabbled in the avant-garde, Cavalcanti makes surprisingly little of the surreal possibilities of this convoluted Dickensian nightmare. As in Champagne Charlie he collaborated with art director Michel Relph to create an impressively atmospheric Victorian London, but stylish visuals hardly compensate for the flat, cursory rendering of some of Dickens' best drawn characters. Only Bernard Miles as Noggs and Cedric Hardwicke as wicked Uncle Ralph are given enough space to establish a proper presence. Meagre and one-dimensional, the film is finally smothered by Ealing's cosy sentimentality.Author: RMy
Cast & crew
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Producer: Michael Balcon
Cast: Derek Bond, Cedric Hardwicke, Alfred Drayton, Aubrey Woods, Jill Balcon, Bernard Miles, Sally Ann Howes, Stanley Holloway, Sybil Thorndike, Fay Compton, Cathleen Nesbitt full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 108 mins
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