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The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick

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The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick
Directed byThomas Bentley
Written byCharles Dickens (novel)
G. A. Baughan
Eliot Stannard
StarringFrederick Volpe
Mary Brough
Bransby Williams
Ernest Thesiger
Production
company
Distributed byIdeal Film Company
Release date
  • November 1921 (1921-11)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageSilent

The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick is a 1921 British silent comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley based on the 1837 novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.[1] As of August 2010, the film is missing from the BFI National Archive, and is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films.[2][3]

Plot

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A contemporary review in Kinematograph Weekly outlined the plot as follows[4]:

Opens with the forming of the Pickwick Club and introductions to its members, and is followed by Mr. Pickwick's instructions to his landlady, Mrs. Bardell, being misinterpreted by her as a proposal. The party travel by coach to Rochesetr, where the episode of Mr. Pickwick's entry into the wrong bedroom occurs. Mrs. Bardell visits a lawyer with a view to taking proceeding against her lodge. The party are seen at Dingley Dell. Mr. Tupman declares his intentions to Miss Rachael, who is persuaded to elope with Alfred Jingle. Mr. Winkle experminets with a gun; the whole party plays cricket. The eloping couple are stopped by Mr. Pickwick, who returns home to find his case has come into Court. The trial takes place, and the whole is concluded by a dance at Dingley Dell, in which Mr. Pickwick joins.

Cast

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Reception

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Kinematograph Weekly considered the film as being "probably an exceptionally good booking proposition", praising it for being exceptionally well made by Bentley and highlighted the performance of Volpe as Pickwick as remarkable amongst, before concluding that "Dickens lovers have a treat in store."[5] The Daily News said that "the true spirit of Dickens, in his most genial and human vein has been caught more completely than in any stage play."[6]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick". Silent Era. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  2. ^ "The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick - 75 Most Wanted". BFI National Archives. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
  3. ^ "BFI Most Wanted The hunt for Britain's missing films". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 29 July 2023. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
  4. ^ "The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick". Kinematograph Weekly. 17 November 1921. p. 63 – via The British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ^ "Trade Shows Surveyed". Kinematograph Weekly. 17 November 1921. p. 57 – via The British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ^ "PICKWICK ON THE SCREEN". The Daily News. London. 10 November 1921. p. 5 – via The British Newspaper Archive.
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