Little Dorrit 1. Nobody's Fault (Original title)Little Dorrit (Alternative title)Nobody's Fault (Alternative title)Little Dorrit Part 1 (Alternative title)
Date: 1987 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Christine Edzard
Synopsis: Intrigued by Little Dorrit, a seamstress in his mother's house, Arthur Clennam traces her to the Marshalsea debtors' prison, where she lives with her father. In trying to restore Dorrit's fortunes, he loses his own....
Genre: Drama
Title: New Directors, New Films IIArticle type: ReviewLanguage: English
In: Cinema Papers n72 March 1989 Pages: 20-24
Title: [Cinema Papers - n72 March 1989: no known title]Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Discussion of the film's pertinence to contemporary Britain, and Dickensian echoes in other recent films such as MONA LISA and MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE.
In: Screen International n617 12 Sep 1987 Page: 20
Title: [Screen International - n617 12 Sep 1987: no known title]Language: English
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v54 n647 December 1987 Pages: 371-373
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v54 n647 December 1987: no known title]Language: English
In: Stills n26 April 1986 Pages: 36-39
Title: [Stills - n26 April 1986: no known title]Article type: InterviewLanguage: English
Description: Interview with producer Richard Goodwin and director Christine Edzard on the production of the film.
In: Stills n24 February 1986 Page: 60
Title: [Stills - n24 February 1986: no known title]Article type: CreditsLanguage: English
Description: Credits, details of the film to be made in two parts, each told from the point of view of the two main characters, noteof budget and location.
In: Screen International n532 25 Jan 1986 Page: 15
Title: [Screen International - n532 25 Jan 1986: no known title]Article type: CreditsLanguage: English
Description: Credits.
In: Screen International n519 19 Oct 1985 Page: 2
Title: [Screen International - n519 19 Oct 1985: no known title]Language: English
Description: Details.
Author: HAEFFNER, Nicholas Pages: 265 p.
Description: Thesis (PhD) in Media and Cultural Studies-University of Sussex, [ca.1995].
Date: 1987 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Christine Edzard
Synopsis: Intrigued by Little Dorrit, a seamstress in his mother's house, Arthur Clennam traces her to the Marshalsea debtors' prison, where she lives with her father. In trying to restore Dorrit's fortunes, he loses his own....
Genre: Drama
Credits
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Production Company: Sands Films, Production Company: Cannon Screen Entertainment, Producer: John Brabourne, Producer: Richard Goodwin, Production staff/casting: Elisabeth Woodthorpe, Production staff/casting: John Downes, Production staff/casting: Linda Gregory, Production staff/casting: Jo Hannam, Production staff/casting: Charlotte Darwin, Production staff/casting: Celia Bannerman, Trevor Ingman, Researcher: David Johnson, Screenplay: Christine Edzard, Original novel: Charles Dickens, Director of Photography: Bruno de Keyser, Lighting: Bruno de Keyser, Lighting: Jack Collins, Lighting: Colin Vinton, Lighting: Pat Noonan, Lighting: Chris Mortley, Lighting: Harold Farley, Camera Operator: Philippe Brun, Camera Operator: Mick Mason, Camera Operator: John Fletcher, Camera Operator: David Hatter, Camera Operator: Michaela Mason, Editor: Olivier Stockman, Editor: Fraser Maclean, Set design: Sands Films, Set design: John McMillan, Set design: Neale Brown, Set design: John Tyson, Set design: Ronnie Barlow, Set design: Bill Reid, Set design: Richard Feroze, Set design: Malcolm May, Set design: Paul Colombo, Set design: Scott Loom, Set design: Terry Thompson, Set design: John Whybrow, Set design: Charles McMillan, Set design: Peter Feroze, Set design: Mary Mcgowan, Set design: Charlie McMillan, Set design: Peter Seatter, Hugh Doherty, Costumes: Sands Films, Costumes: Barbara Sonnex, Costumes: Judith Loom, Costumes: Joyce Carter, Costumes: Johanna Sonnex, Costumes: Linda James, Costumes: Lilla Griffin, Costumes: Eleanor Chaudhuri, Costumes: Harry Ellam, Costumes: Jackie Smith, Costumes: Sally Neale, Costumes: Claudie Gastine, Costumes: Danielle Garderes, Music: Giuseppe Verdi, Soloist: Pat Halling, Soloist: F. Gabarro, Jack Brymer, Music arranged and conducted: Michel Sanvoisin, Sound Recording: Godfrey Kirby, Sound Recording: St. Clair Davis, Sound Recording: Geoffrey Simm, Sound Re-recording: Paul Carr, Sound Re-recording: Brian Paxton, Sound Re-recording: Richard Lewzey, Horses and carriages provided: David Goodey
Cast
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Derek Jacobi (Arthur Clennam), Joan Greenwood (Mrs. Clenam), Max Wall (Flintwinch), Patricia Hayes (Affery), Luke Duckett (young Arthur), Miriam Margolyes (Flora Finching), Bill Fraser (Mr. Casby), Roshan Seth (Mr. Pancks), Mollie Maureen (Mr. F's aunt), Diana Malin (Mr. Casby's maid), Janice Cramer (young Flora), Roger Hammond (Mr. Meagles), Sophie Ward (Minnie Meagles), Kathy Staff (Mrs. Tickit), Amanda Bellamy, Tracey Wilkinson (housemaid), Julia Lang (Henry Gowan's mother), Pip Torrens (Henry Gowan), Graham Seed (William Barnacle), Beth Ellis (Mrs. William Barnacle), Ian Gelder (Reverend Samuel Barnacle), Lee Fox (Richard Barnacle), Robert Mill (Hugh Stilstalking), Morwenna Banks (Georgina), Nadia Chambers (Agnes), Dawn Charatan (Mrs. Ismay), Patricia Napier (Dolly), Sophie Brew (Lydia), John Savident (Tite Barnacle), Brian Pettifer (Clarence Barnacle), John Harding (Ferdinand Barnacle), Alec Wallis (discreet clerk), Michael Mears (clerk with the quill), Ken Morley (Mr. Wobbler), John Quarmby (circumlocution office porter), Stuart Burge (Head), Donald Pelmear (Mr. Clive), Arthur Nightingale (shabby footman), David Stoll (hesitant weighty gentleman), Donald Bisset (enthusiastic weighty gentleman), Christopher Birch (cautious weighty gentleman), Edward Burnham (Daniel Doyce), Harold Innocent (Mr. Rugg, legal adviser), David Pugh (Mr. Parker, a creditor), Terence Conoley (Mr. Fogg, a creditor), Richard Henry (Smiles, foreman), Steve Ismay, Johnny Irving (worker), David Doyle (Pepper, apprentice), Christopher Whittingham (Mr. Plornish), Ruth Mitchell (Mrs. Plornish), Eric Francis (old Nandy, Mrs. Plornish's father), Anna Whittingham, Eve Whittingham, Harry Whittingham, Nicholas Whittingham (Plornish child), Kate Williams (Mrs. Greasby), Ronnie Brody (broke tenant), Joan Dainty (broke tenant's wife), Susan Field (Mrs. Tiffin), Robert Demeger (Mr. Braddle), Cordelia Ditton (Mrs. Braddle), David Thewlis (George Braddle), Gerald Campion (Mr. Tetterby), Rita Triesman (Mrs. Tetterby), Betty Turner (Mrs. Kidgerbury), Johnny Clayton (fiddler), Moya Brady (fiddler's daughter), Iris Sadler (shirtmaker), Joanna Brookes (shirtmaker's daughter), Nat Pearn (Mr. Strong), Cyril Epstein (Mr. Strong's friend), Alan Bungay (principal messenger), Mark Arnold (boy), Alec Guinness (William Dorrit), Cyril Cusack (Frederick Dorrit), Sarah Pickering (Little Dorrit), Amelda Brown (Fanny Dorrit), Daniel Chatto (Tip Dorrit), Howard Goorney (Bob, the turnkey), Liz Smith (Mrs. Bangham, midwife), Gwenda Hughes (Mrs. Dorrit), Celia Bannerman (milliner), Murray Melvin (dancing master), Darlene Johnson (Mrs. Robinson), Bernard Padden (newcomer), Dermot Crowley (Mr. Simpson), Richard Cubison (Mr. Simpson's friend), Arthur Blake (Herbert Smangle), John Scott Martin (faded insolvent), David Trevena (tidily buttoned man), David Bale (lucky skittle player), Anthony Benson (unlucky skittle player), Ian Lindsay (Captain Martin), Doug Roe (Capt. Martin's friend), Tom McCabe (rough fellow), Ramon Martino (gruff fellow), Joan Stafford (rough lady), Terry Day (Mrs. Hurt), Cate Fowler, Carol Street (woman at dance), Siobhan Nicholas (Mrs. Fay), Katherine Best (lady visitor), Yvonne D'alpra (motherly lady), Robin Meredith (ruined speculator), Marcel Steiner (whistler), Charles Reynolds (Mr. Timms), Tony Jay (doctor), Lizzie Mckenzie (drunken woman), Harry Cross, Sarrina Caruthers, Susan Tanner (Little Dorrit as a child), Sandra O'Rourke, Joanna Hurley (Fanny as a child), Ricky Cave (Tip, age 12), Zephyr Steer (John Chivery, age 4), Sam Steer (John Chivery, age 8), Robert Putt (Mr. Chivery, the new turnkey), Richard Stirling (John Chivery), Pauline Quirke (Maggy, Little Dorrit's protégée), Heathcote Williams (Dr. Haggage), Charlie Bartle (Mr. Battens), David Foxxe (Mr. Mivvins), James Coyle (Horace Kinch), Maurice Elliot (Snuggery gambler), Jack Gittings (old gambler), John McEnery (Captain Hopkins), Marilyn Milgrom (Mrs. Hopkins), Stewart Permutt (one of the quarelling debtors), John Levitt (one of the quarreling debtors), Marjorie Somerville (lady by Snuggery), Seymour Green (tailor), John Warner (bootmaker), Peter Miles (Mr. Dubbin), Laura Cox (Orange Juggler), John Halstead (Mr. Mortimer), Charles Hunter (Mr. Mortimer's Friend), Richard Graden (Slingo), Richard Clifford (Jerry), Doris Littlewood (old wife), Irene Frederick (Mrs. Pitt), Harry Webster (Pickton), Leonard Maguire (knowledgeable debtor), Judy Laister (anxious wife), Alfred Hoffman (man, old couple), Lelia Hoffman (wife, old couple), Mike Carnel (lonely debtor), Tommy Shand (Mr. Cain), Imogen Millais-Scott (Mrs. Bee), Olivier Pierre (hotel manager), Tim Wright (hotel porter), Rosemary Smith, Lin Sagovsky (hotel maid), Odette Bennett (Fanny's maid), Michael Mears (William's valet), Tusse Silberg, Elizabeth Archer, Nadine Large (lady at concert), Eleanor Bron (Mrs. Merdle), Michael Elphick (Mr. Merdle), Simon Dormandy (Sparkler Merdle), Ian Hogg (Butler), Robert Morley (Lord Decimus Barnacle), Alan Bennett (Bishop), Brenda Bruce (Duchess), Edward Jewesbury (magnate from the Lords), Jonathan Cecil (magnate from the Bench), Brian Poyser (Treasury), Malcolm Tierney (Bar), Trevor Ray (magnate from the City), Rosalie Crutchley (magnate from the Bench's Wife), Betty Marsden (Mrs. Phoebe Barnacle), Paul Rhys (bright young gentleman), Malcolm Mudie (officer), Barbara Peak (Countess), Ronald Russell (elderly gentleman), Arthur Hewlett (physician), Giles Oldeshaw (imposing gentleman), John Atkinson (Baron), Sally Ashby, Anthea Holloway, Ruth Sheen (society lady), John Tordoff (waiter in the coffee house), Christopher Hancock (customer in the coffee house), Jo Warne (Mrs. Chivery, tobacconist), Fred Beauman (flower seller), Alan Foss (Mr. Bead), Michael Eaves (narrow-faced man), Alison Dowling (pretty milliner), Chris Darwin, Leon Davis (fraudulent groom), Sidney Johnson (print seller), Mark Knox (print seller's clerk), Frank Shelley (disagreeable man), Jenny Galloway (Polly), John Dalby (Mr. Jobling), Danny Schiller, Arthur Kelly (reveller in the slap bang), David Cardy (3 Thimble Man), Eric Richard (Sir George Wills), Guy Nicholls (Mr. Wabe), David Whitworth (James Simms), Eli Woods (Greedy-eyed Old Man), Charles Simon (Sharp Speculator), Stanley Lloyd (Mr. Worsley), Peter Waddington (Boy at Theatre), Arthur Cox (Stage Carpenter), Billy Gray (Stage Doorman), Jackie Ekers, Rebecca Ham (Dancer at Theatre), Fiona McAlpine (Dancer At Theatre), Amanda Maxwell, Shona Morris, Diana Paris, Cazz Scattergood (Dancer at Theatre)
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library
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In: Films in Review v40 n1 January 1989 Page: 26,27Title: New Directors, New Films IIArticle type: ReviewLanguage: English
In: Cinema Papers n72 March 1989 Pages: 20-24
Title: [Cinema Papers - n72 March 1989: no known title]Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Discussion of the film's pertinence to contemporary Britain, and Dickensian echoes in other recent films such as MONA LISA and MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE.
In: Screen International n617 12 Sep 1987 Page: 20
Title: [Screen International - n617 12 Sep 1987: no known title]Language: English
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v54 n647 December 1987 Pages: 371-373
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v54 n647 December 1987: no known title]Language: English
In: Stills n26 April 1986 Pages: 36-39
Title: [Stills - n26 April 1986: no known title]Article type: InterviewLanguage: English
Description: Interview with producer Richard Goodwin and director Christine Edzard on the production of the film.
In: Stills n24 February 1986 Page: 60
Title: [Stills - n24 February 1986: no known title]Article type: CreditsLanguage: English
Description: Credits, details of the film to be made in two parts, each told from the point of view of the two main characters, noteof budget and location.
In: Screen International n532 25 Jan 1986 Page: 15
Title: [Screen International - n532 25 Jan 1986: no known title]Article type: CreditsLanguage: English
Description: Credits.
In: Screen International n519 19 Oct 1985 Page: 2
Title: [Screen International - n519 19 Oct 1985: no known title]Language: English
Description: Details.
Books held in BFI Reuben Library
(1)
Title: English cinema and cultural identity under ThatcherismAuthor: HAEFFNER, Nicholas Pages: 265 p.
Description: Thesis (PhD) in Media and Cultural Studies-University of Sussex, [ca.1995].