About this title: Though it pales in comparison to the Royal Shakespeare Company's epic staging of the original novel in the early 1980s, this compact adaptation of Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby is most entertaining on its own terms. Derek Bond plays the title character, a resourceful young Britisher forced to protect his family against the demonic machinations of his wicked Uncle Ralph (Cedric Hardwicke at his most odious). Cast out into the cold cruel world, Nicholas Nickleby deals adroitly with friend and foe alike, eventually coming full circle to mete out just desserts to his unspeakable uncle. With only 108 ...
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Description: Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Stanley Holloway, Alfred Drayton, Cyril Fletcher, Derek Bond, Aubrey Woods. New in new packaging. 1947 Run time: 108. Bond toils in a boys' school in Yorkshire where he has been apprenticed by his no-good uncle. Conditions at the school are appalling, so he and another student escape, join a traveling theatrical troupe, and enjoy a series of adventures leading to resolution. Prodiced by Miachel Balcon. From CHarles Dicken Classic story. read more
Description: Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Stanley Holloway, Alfred Drayton, Cyril Fletcher, Derek Bond, Aubrey Woods. New in new packaging. 1947 Run time: 108. Bond toils in a boys' school in Yorkshire where he has been apprenticed by his no-good uncle. Conditions at the school are appalling, so he and another student escape, join a traveling theatrical troupe, and enjoy a series of adventures leading to resolution. Prodiced by Miachel Balcon. From CHarles Dicken Classic story. read more
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