The Pickwick Papers (1952 - UK) [Charles Dickens] comedy

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The Pickwick Papers (1952 - UK)

Comedy / Drama

novel by . . . . Charles Dickens

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045030/

Academy Awards Oscar - NOMINATED - Best Costume Design

The film premiered at the Gaumont Cinema at Haymarket in London on 14 November 1952. In 1954 the Soviet Union paid £10,000 for the distribution rights, and it became the first British film to be shown in the Soviet Union after World War II, premiering on 29 July 1954 in a number of cities with a dubbed soundtrack. The film was followed by a Russian reprint of Dickens' book in 150,000 copies a month later.

John Hayter is Samuel Pickwick in this delightful filmization of Dickens' seriocomic novel. Mr Pickwick is chairman of the Pickwick Club, a scholarly league operating in mid-19th century London. The Club's avowed purpose is to scrupulously study everyday life in England - not to improve or remonstrate, but simply examine, as a scientist would examine life under the microscope. The episodic storyline transports the Pickwicks all over town, from the fashionable digs of ever-in-debt roue Mr Jingle to debtor's prison.

Video: XviD, 640x464, 25.000 fps, 1525 Kbps, 01h44m43s
Audio: MP3, 48000 Hz, mono, 64 kbps

DVDRip, English audio, optional subtitles English and Spanish