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data-file-width="363" data-file-height="274" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Original British 1952 <a href="/wiki/Film_poster#Film_poster_sizes" title="Film poster">quad film poster</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Directed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Noel_Langley" title="Noel Langley">Noel Langley</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Screenplay by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Noel_Langley" title="Noel Langley">Noel Langley</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Based on</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Pickwick_Papers" title="The Pickwick Papers">The Pickwick Papers</a></i><br />by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Produced by</th><td class="infobox-data">George Minter<br /><a href="/wiki/Noel_Langley" title="Noel Langley">Noel Langley</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Starring</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/James_Hayter_(actor)" title="James Hayter (actor)">James Hayter</a><br /><a href="/wiki/James_Donald" title="James Donald">James Donald</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Nigel_Patrick" title="Nigel Patrick">Nigel Patrick</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Joyce_Grenfell" title="Joyce Grenfell">Joyce Grenfell</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Hermione_Baddeley" title="Hermione Baddeley">Hermione Baddeley</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Hermione_Gingold" title="Hermione Gingold">Hermione Gingold</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Cinematography</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Wilkie_Cooper" title="Wilkie Cooper">Wilkie Cooper</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Edited by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Anne_V._Coates" title="Anne V. Coates">Anne V. Coates</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Music by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Antony_Hopkins" title="Antony Hopkins">Antony Hopkins</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Production<br />company</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="vertical-align: middle;"><a href="/wiki/Renown_Pictures" title="Renown Pictures">Renown Pictures</a><sup id="cite_ref-BFI_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BFI-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Distributed by</th><td class="infobox-data">Renown Pictures<sup id="cite_ref-bbfc_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbfc-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <span style="font-size:85%;">(UK)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Release date</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist film-date"> <ul><li>14&#160;November&#160;1952<span style="display:none">&#160;(<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1952-11-14</span>)</span>&#32;(UK<sup id="cite_ref-TimesReview_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TimesReview-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; white-space: normal;">Running time</div></th><td class="infobox-data">115 minutes<sup id="cite_ref-bbfc_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbfc-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.65em;">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>The Pickwick Papers</b></i> is a 1952 British <a href="/wiki/Historical_film" class="mw-redirect" title="Historical film">historical</a> <a href="/wiki/Comedy_film" title="Comedy film">comedy</a> <a href="/wiki/Drama_film" class="mw-redirect" title="Drama film">drama film</a> written and directed by <a href="/wiki/Noel_Langley" title="Noel Langley">Noel Langley</a> and starring <a href="/wiki/James_Hayter_(actor)" title="James Hayter (actor)">James Hayter</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Donald" title="James Donald">James Donald</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nigel_Patrick" title="Nigel Patrick">Nigel Patrick</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joyce_Grenfell" title="Joyce Grenfell">Joyce Grenfell</a>. It is based on the <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>’s <a href="/wiki/The_Pickwick_Papers" title="The Pickwick Papers">1837 novel of the same name</a>. It was made by <a href="/wiki/Renown_Pictures" title="Renown Pictures">Renown Pictures</a> who had successfully released another Dickens adaptation <i><a href="/wiki/Scrooge_(1951_film)" title="Scrooge (1951 film)">Scrooge</a></i> the previous year. </p><p>The film was made at the <a href="/wiki/Walton_Studios" title="Walton Studios">Nettlefold Studios</a> in <a href="/wiki/Walton-on-Thames" title="Walton-on-Thames">Walton-on-Thames</a>. Shot in <a href="/wiki/Black-and-white" title="Black-and-white">black-and-white</a>, the film's sets were designed by the <a href="/wiki/Art_director" title="Art director">art director</a> <a href="/wiki/Fred_Pusey" title="Fred Pusey">Frederick Pusey</a> with <a href="/wiki/Costume_designer" title="Costume designer">costumes</a> by <a href="/wiki/Beatrice_Dawson" title="Beatrice Dawson">Beatrice Dawson</a>. It premiered at the <a href="/wiki/Gaumont_Haymarket" class="mw-redirect" title="Gaumont Haymarket">Gaumont Cinema</a> at <a href="/wiki/Haymarket,_London" title="Haymarket, London">Haymarket</a> in London on 14 November 1952.<sup id="cite_ref-TimesReview_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TimesReview-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1954, the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> paid £10,000 for the distribution rights, and it became the first British film to be shown in the Soviet Union after the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>, premiering on 29 July 1954 in a number of cities with a dubbed soundtrack.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The film was followed a month later by a Russian reprint of Dickens' book, in 150,000 copies.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cast">Cast</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pickwick_Papers_(1952_film)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Cast"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 25em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Hayter_(actor)" title="James Hayter (actor)">James Hayter</a> as <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Pickwick" title="Samuel Pickwick">Samuel Pickwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Donald" title="James Donald">James Donald</a> as <a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Winkle" title="Nathaniel Winkle">Nathaniel Winkle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nigel_Patrick" title="Nigel Patrick">Nigel Patrick</a> as <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Jingle" title="Alfred Jingle">Alfred Jingle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joyce_Grenfell" title="Joyce Grenfell">Joyce Grenfell</a> as Mrs. Leo Hunter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermione_Gingold" title="Hermione Gingold">Hermione Gingold</a> as Miss Tompkins</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermione_Baddeley" title="Hermione Baddeley">Hermione Baddeley</a> as <a href="/wiki/Mrs_Bardell_(Pickwick_Papers)" title="Mrs Bardell (Pickwick Papers)">Mrs. Bardell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Wolfit" title="Donald Wolfit">Donald Wolfit</a> as Sergeant Buzfuz</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Fowler" title="Harry Fowler">Harry Fowler</a> as <a href="/wiki/Sam_Weller_(character)" title="Sam Weller (character)">Sam Weller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kathleen_Harrison" title="Kathleen Harrison">Kathleen Harrison</a> as Rachel Wardle</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Gauge" title="Alexander Gauge">Alexander Gauge</a> as <a href="/wiki/Tracy_Tupman" title="Tracy Tupman">Tracy Tupman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lionel_Murton" title="Lionel Murton">Lionel Murton</a> as <a href="/wiki/Augustus_Snodgrass" title="Augustus Snodgrass">Augustus Snodgrass</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diane_Hart" title="Diane Hart">Diane Hart</a> as Emily Wardle</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joan_Heal" title="Joan Heal">Joan Heal</a> as Isabella Wardle</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Hartnell" title="William Hartnell">William Hartnell</a> as Irate Cabman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athene_Seyler" title="Athene Seyler">Athene Seyler</a> as Miss Witherfield</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Fitzgerald" title="Walter Fitzgerald">Walter Fitzgerald</a> as Mr. Wardle</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Merrall" title="Mary Merrall">Mary Merrall</a> as Grandma Wardle</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cecil_Trouncer" title="Cecil Trouncer">Cecil Trouncer</a> as Mr. Justice Stareleigh</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Felix_Felton" title="Felix Felton">Felix Felton</a> as Dr. Slammer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hattie_Jacques" title="Hattie Jacques">Hattie Jacques</a> as Mrs Nupkins</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Costa" title="Sam Costa">Sam Costa</a> as Job Trotter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noel_Purcell_(actor)" title="Noel Purcell (actor)">Noel Purcell</a> as Roker</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raymond_Lovell" title="Raymond Lovell">Raymond Lovell</a> as Aide</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Robey" title="George Robey">George Robey</a> as <a href="/wiki/Tony_Weller" title="Tony Weller">Tony Weller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Max_Adrian" title="Max Adrian">Max Adrian</a> as Aide</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Wheatley" title="Alan Wheatley">Alan Wheatley</a> as Fogg</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._A._Clarke-Smith" title="D. A. Clarke-Smith">D. A. Clarke-Smith</a> as Dodson</li> <li>Jack MacNaughton as Mr. Nupkins</li> <li>David Hannaford as Boy</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerald_Campion" title="Gerald Campion">Gerald Campion</a> as Joe, the Fat Boy</li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_Thorburn" title="June Thorburn">June Thorburn</a> as Arabella Allen</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barry_MacKay_(actor)" title="Barry MacKay (actor)">Barry MacKay</a> as Mr. Snubbins</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joan_Benham" title="Joan Benham">Joan Benham</a> as Miss Tompkins' Companion</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graeme_Harper" title="Graeme Harper">Graeme Harper</a> as Master Bardell</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Mullard" title="Arthur Mullard">Arthur Mullard</a> as Onlooker</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyril_Smith_(actor)" title="Cyril Smith (actor)">Cyril Smith</a> as Ostler</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_nominations">Awards and nominations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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costumes.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Critical_reception">Critical reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pickwick_Papers_(1952_film)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Critical reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Maltin" title="Leonard Maltin">Leonard Maltin</a> gave the film three out of four stars, calling it a "Flavorful adaptation of Dickens' classic";<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and <i><a href="/wiki/TV_Guide" title="TV Guide">TV Guide</a></i> rated it three out of five stars, writing, "If ever a Dickens novel shouted to be filmed, it was The Pickwick Papers, and a jolly good job was done with this version...It's a very funny film with some of England's best light comedians and comediennes."<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Colourised_version">Colourised version</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pickwick_Papers_(1952_film)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Colourised version"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2012, a digitally restored and <a href="/wiki/Film_colourisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Film colourisation">colourised version</a> of the film was released on DVD, causing a renewed debate in the UK about colourisation of old black-and-white classics.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pickwick_Papers_(1952_film)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-TimesReview-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-TimesReview_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-TimesReview_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">The Times, 13 November 1952, page 2, film review – "Dickens on Screen": "<i>The Pickwick Papers</i> goes into the programme at the Gaumont Cinema to-morrow." – Found in The Times Digital Archive 2013-12-06</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-BFI-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-BFI_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120713181813/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6b30ab31">BFI: <i>The Pickwick Papers</i></a> Linked 2013-12-06</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-bbfc-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-bbfc_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bbfc_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bbfc.co.uk/search/releases/any/any/any/any/any/0/any/any/aff024347/any/any/any/any?advanced=true">BBFC: <i>The Pickwick Papers (1952)</i></a> Linked 2013-12-06</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Times, 30 July 1954, page 11: <i>Dickens Film In Russia </i> – Found in The Times Digital Archive 2013-12-06</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Times, 14 August 1954, page 3, Telegrams in Brief: <i>A new edition of 150,000 copies of 'Pickwick Papers' has been published in Russia, Moscow Radio reports.</i> – Found in The Times Digital Archive 2013-12-06</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Harper, Sue &amp; Porter, Vincent. <i>British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference</i>, page 163, Oxford University Press, 2007</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free 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Oxford University Press, 2007.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Pickwick_Papers_(1952_film)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160309130137/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b30ab31/">The Pickwick Papers</a> at the <a href="/wiki/British_Film_Institute" title="British Film Institute">British Film Institute</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="Help request: a live link can be searched for at https&#58;//collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/search/expert - if available, replace the archive URL with the live link. 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