David Copperfield [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; by Charles Dickens ; directed by George Cukor ; produced by David O. Selznick ; adaptation by Hugh Walpole ; screen play by Howard Estabrook.
Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, W.C. Fields, Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allan, Freddie Bartholomew, Lewis Stone, Roland Young, Madge Evans, Frank Lawton. Originally released as a motion picture by MGM in 1935. "M300649."
Summary:
David Copperfield enjoys an idyllic life with his gentle, widowed mother and his loving nurse, Peggotty. Then tragedy strikes when Mr. Murdstone weds David's mother and drives her to an early grave. Despised by his stepfather, the boy is forced to live in misery and poverty until he runs away to throw himself upon the mercy of his eccentric aunt. Charles Dickens's classic tale of growing up.
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