Four wealthy Victorian gentlemen led by Samuel Pickwick set forth on an objective study of human behavior, thwarted by con artist Mr. Jingle and one of his schemes leading to Pickwick being ... Read allFour wealthy Victorian gentlemen led by Samuel Pickwick set forth on an objective study of human behavior, thwarted by con artist Mr. Jingle and one of his schemes leading to Pickwick being put on trial for breaking a promise to marry.Four wealthy Victorian gentlemen led by Samuel Pickwick set forth on an objective study of human behavior, thwarted by con artist Mr. Jingle and one of his schemes leading to Pickwick being put on trial for breaking a promise to marry.
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This film is adapted from the Dicken's source novel and restricts itself to some of the best sequences from the long tome.
You have the caddish Mr Jingle getting others in all sorts of scrapes including getting Mr Winkle involved in a duel. There are scenes of elopements and nearly elopements again with Mr Jingle trying to get away with the loot.
A misunderstanding leads to a court case involving a supposed broken promise of a marriage leading Dickens to have a swipe at lawyers and a sequence in a debtor's prison which suddenly switches the film from its comic mode to serious social issues of Victorian Britain.
James Hayter is very good as Pickwick, Nigel Patrick is a hoot as Jingle, Harry Fowler is memorable as Weller.
It is not the best adaptation of a Dickens novel from that era being rather low budget but amusing enough.
Did you know
- TriviaAlthough the film was released in England in 1952 and opened in New York in 1954, it was not nominated for Oscars until 1956, due to its not having played in Los Angeles until then.
- GoofsThe pony trap shown outside the coach-house is not the same pony trap that Mr Pickwick and others are seen riding on in the next scene.
- Quotes
Nathaniel Winkle: Gentlemen, Mr. Jingle is the viper in our midst.
Samuel Pickwick: Viper?
Nathaniel Winkle: Viper, sir.
Tracy Tupman: Nonsense, Winkle.
Samuel Pickwick: Nonsense, Winkle.
Augustus Snodgrass: N-nonsense, Winkle.
Nathaniel Winkle: Very well, then... we shall see.
- Crazy creditsClosing credits finish with The End of The Pickwick Papers
- Alternate versionsAlso available in a colorized version.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Arena: Dickens on Film (2012)
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- Die wunderlichen Erlebnisse des Mr. Pickwick
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- Nettlefold Studios, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, UK(studio: produced at)
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- Runtime1 hour 49 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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