David Copperfield 1969

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.

Cast:

Richard Attenborough
Mr. Tungay 

Cyril Cusack
Barkis 

Edith Evans
Aunt Betsy Trotwood 

Pamela Franklin
Dora Spenlow 

Susan Hampshire
Agnes Wickfield 

Wendy Hiller
Mrs. Micawber