David Copperfield (1935)

DAVID COPPERFIELD  (1935)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: George Cukor
    Freddie Bartholomew, Frank Lawton, W.C. Fields,
    Lionel Barrymore, Madge Evans, Roland Young,
    Basil Rathbone, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lewis Stone,
    Elsa Lanchester, Arthur Treacher, Una O'Connor
The Dickens tale about a boy who has many fateful adventures on the way to becoming a man (and coincidentally a writer much like Charles Dickens). The acting is melodramatic in a way that hasn't been seen since, well, this movie, but Dickens devotee W.C. Fields cuts through all that as the perfect Mr. McCawber.