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30/12/2011

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Young David's happy childhood is blighted when his widowed mother remarries.

Screen version of the Dickens classic. Young David's happy childhood is blighted when his widowed mother remarries. Starring Edna May Oliver.

A memorable screen version of the Dickens classic. Young David's happy childhood is blighted when his widowed mother remarries and his brutish stepfather dispatches him to a grim school, and then sets him to work in a warehouse. Eventually David resolves to run away to find his only surviving relative, a daunting old aunt who is only a dim and forbidding memory.

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