Hard Times
Charles Dickens was a gift to cinema. His vividly drawn characters seemed to spring from the page onto the screen, while
his narrative genius - not to mention his vast output of novels and stories - provided filmmakers with readily-adaptable
subjects with built-in popular appeal.
Our expanded bicentennial collection offers a rich selection of early silent treatments, from short vignettes such as 1901's
Scrooge, or Marley's Ghost to later features such as 1920's Bleak House (pictured) and on to more celebrated adaptations
such as David Lean's critically lauded, visually adventurous Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948), and Alastair
Sim's near-definitive characterisation of the great miser in Scrooge (1951).
Dickens on Film
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