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.
Richard Attenborough , Cyril Cusack , Edith Evans , Pamela Franklin , Susan Hampshire , Wendy Hiller , Ron Moody , Laurence Olivier , Robin Phillips , Michael Redgrave
20th Century Fox Television
