Having never read the book - I can say I enjoyed this film adaptation- aside from the odd bit of knockabout humour, which was not to my taste.
James Hayter was made for the title role, but nearly has his thunder stolen by Harry Fowler as Sam Weller and Nigel Patrick as Alfred Jingle.
Despite the scrapes Pickwick gets into the film often has a heartwarming tone.
My final observation is the debtors prison- something from Dickens life - as his father spent time in one.
Review of The Pickwick Papers
