The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ★★★½ Nicholas Nickleby 1981 Nine-hour performance of the 1838 Dickens' tale by the Royal Shakespeare Company, featuring the work of 39 actors portraying 150 characters. Wonderful performances are characterized by frantic action and smoothly meshing intertwining plots, focusing on the trials and tribulations of the Nickleby family, amidst wealth, poverty, and injustice in Victorian England. Nine cassettes. 540m/C VHS. GB Roger Rees, David Thewlis, Emily Richard, John Woodvine;
Director:
Jim Goddard;
Writer:
David Edgar;
Cameo:
Stephen Oliver.
