Product Details

• Actors: Derek Bond, Cedric Hardwicke, Mary Merrall, Sally Ann Howes, Bernard Miles
• Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti
• Writers: Charles Dickens, John Dighton
• Producers: John Croydon, Michael Balcon
• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Monterey Home Video
• VHS Release Date: September 24, 1996
• Run Time: 108 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304233655
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #238,489 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A crude portrait!, December 16, 2004

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Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nicholas Nickleby [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Charles Dickens was the social surgeon . His eye focuses on the misfortunes of a penniless boy who will fight hard , so hard against a money mad scheming uncle. This familiar portrait , obviously is a reflect of the English social body in those years where the opulence was in the edges .
The proud is the reason to live to many people !
Excellent film and one of the most remarkable movies of the last forties though it lacks the punch of the Great Expectations, to be fair .
This is by far , the best version you can get of this superb social portrait.

3.0 out of 5 stars 1940s Nicholas Nickleby Film, April 4, 2007

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Peter Blyth (Southrey, Lincolnshire) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nicholas Nickleby (1947) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Despite one or two sterling performances, anyone wanting Nicholas Nickleby in a permanent form should buy either the 1980s RSC perfromance or the 2001 DVD. The RSC version may be overlong and contain some unnecessary scenes and characters but in David Threlfall's portrayal of Smike it has an all-time great performance. The parts of Nicholas and Kate in this early film are more suited in age than the 1980s version, but Nicholas is not up to James Darcy's toucing portrayal in the 2001 version. Nor does Stanley Holloway's worthy attempt at Crummles compare with the masterly one by Freddie Jones in the 1977 version.
Indeed to have a completely perfect cast in this panoramic story, one needs the luxury of the five available versions.

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is a good movie for adults,teens, and mature kids, June 20, 2000

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Olga-Schitnzel (Honolulu,Hawaaii) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nicholas Nickleby [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a good movie for adults,teens,and mature kids. Some of the things they do are adult such as, call people bad names(real bad)or harrass people or, in one particular scene, a boy gets beaten most ferociously with a reed cane.It is a sad but good movie and it tell of real things that happened then.I enjoyed it but they talk in old english and really fast so be prepared..