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David Copperfield (1913 film)

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David Copperfield is a 1913 British black-and-white silent film based on the novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. It is the second-oldest known film adaptation of the novel.

The film was made by the Hepworth Manufacturing Corporation, was produced by Cecil Hepworth and was written and directed by Thomas Bentley.^[1] In the United Kingdom it was released in August 1913, and in the United States it was released on 1 December 1913. It ran at 67 minutes on seven reels.^[2]

A review of the film in The Dickensian said:

"It occupies close upon two hours to exhibit and is divided into six parts, telling the story of David's life from Blunderstone to his happy union with Agnes. Obviously the part of David is enacted by three different actors, Master Eric Desmond, Mr Len Bethel and Mr Kenneth Ware. The first-named being one of the cleverest child actors we have seen. We have no space to speak of all the characters presented. Each and all of them were Dickens' creations to the life and not mere exaggerations as is often the case.

The film not only includes all of the most prominent characters and all the necessary incidents of the book to make the story intelligible to the lay reader, but they have been enacted in the actual places in which the novelist laid them."^[3]

Cast

Reginald Sheffield as Eric Desmond as David Copperfield as a boy
Len Bethel as David Copperfield as a youth
Kenneth Ware as David Copperfield as a Man
Edna May as Em'ly as a Child
Amy Verity as Em'ly as a Woman
Alma Taylor as Dora Spenlow
H. Collins as Wilkins Micawber
Miss West as Emma Micawber
Jack Hulcup as Uriah Heep
Jamie Darling as Daniel Peggotty
Cecil Mannering as James Steerforth

References

1. ^David Copperfield on the British Film Institute website
2. ^David Copperfield on 123 Nonstop Movies
3. ^David Copperfield on the Cinemaatograph, The Dickensian , Vol IX, No. 10, October 1913

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