The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

1947

Action / Drama

9
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 58% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 1175 1.2K

charles dickens boarding school victorian england smike wackford squeers

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Plot summary

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

Director

Alberto Cavalcanti Photo
Alberto Cavalcanti

Top cast

Cecil Ramage Photo
Cecil Ramage as Sir Mulberry Hawk
John Chandos Photo
John Chandos as Employment Agent
Cedric Hardwicke Photo
Cedric Hardwicke as Ralph Nickleby
Timothy Bateson Photo
Timothy Bateson as Lord Verisopht
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994.06 MB
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23.976 fps
1 hr 48 min
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1.8 GB
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English 2.0
Approved
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23.976 fps
1 hr 48 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

It's not so often that Sir Cedric Hardwicke

It's not so often that Sir Cedric Hardwicke takes centre stage in a film, but he does it quite menacingly in this adaptation of Charles Dickens's story of greed and belonging. We first meet his "Ralph" when his recently widowed sister-in-law (Mary Merrill) arrives on his doorstep with her children "Nicholas" (Derek Bond) and "Kate" (Sally Ann Howes). In need of his patronage, he agrees providing the children find gainful employment - a task he readily undertakes himself. She is to become an apprentice seamstress, he a teacher in a remote boy's school run by "Wackford Squeers" (Alfred Drayton) who rules his school with fear, starvation and a cane. Young "Nicholas" is repulsed by their methods, especially as both he and his wife (Sybil Thorndike) use their lackey "Smike" (Aubrey Woods) as a glorified slave. Abhorred, he takes direct action which promptly sets him on a series of escapades that eventually pitch him against his uncle and his powerful, and sleazy, friends. There are loads of engaging characters to help him along the way: "Crummies" (Stanley Holloway) runs a touring vaudeville troupe whom he and "Smike" do some popular writing for; Bernard Miles's "Newman Noggs" proves ever useful as his eyes and ears in his uncle's office and the always reliable James Hayter is on good form as the aptly named and generous "Ned Cheeryble". They all help this tale of the epitome of venality and wickedness come to it's head. It's never simple with this author, he always takes with one hand what he gives with the other - and the conclusion here is tinged with sadness. It's one of my favourite of this man's stories and Cavacanti makes sure this superior cast pack plenty of characterful performances into this darkly photographed drama and gritty looking drama.
Reviewed by theowinthrop 8 / 10

A Forgotten Filming of a Dickens' novel

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