It's not as celebrated as the two David Lean films, and perhaps not as artistic, but this is still one of the best screen versions of Dickens. It's impossible, of course, for it to reproduce the richness of the book, and as a result it suffers more than the book from the inconsequential story. But it captures Dickens' exuberant, quixotic comic spirit better than any other film.
Review of The Pickwick Papers
