• Source: The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick

      • The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick is a 1921 British silent comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley based on the 1837 novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. The film is missing from the BFI National Archive, and is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films.


      Plot


      A contemporary review in Kinematograph Weekly outlined the plot as follows:

      Opens with the forming of the Pickwick Club and introductions to its members, and is followed by Mr. Pickwick's instructions to his landlady, Mrs. Bardell, being misinterpreted by her as a proposal. The party travel by coach to Rochesetr, where the episode of Mr. Pickwick's entry into the wrong bedroom occurs. Mrs. Bardell visits a lawyer with a view to taking proceeding against her lodge. The party are seen at Dingley Dell. Mr. Tupman declares his intentions to Miss Rachael, who is persuaded to elope with Alfred Jingle. Mr. Winkle experminets with a gun; the whole party plays cricket. The eloping couple are stopped by Mr. Pickwick, who returns home to find his case has come into Court. The trial takes place, and the whole is concluded by a dance at Dingley Dell, in which Mr. Pickwick joins.


      Cast


      Frederick Volpe as Samuel Pickwick (as Fred Volpe)
      Mary Brough as Mrs. Bardell
      Bransby Williams as Sgt. Buzfuz
      Ernest Thesiger as Mr. Jingle
      Kathleen Vaughan as Arabella Allen
      Joyce Dearsley as Isabella Wardle
      Arthur Cleave as Mr. Nathaniel Winkle
      Athene Seyler as Rachel Wardle
      John Kelt as Mr. Augustus Snodgrass
      Hubert Woodward as Sam Weller
      Norman Page as Justice Stoneleigh


      Reception


      Kinematograph Weekly considered the film as being "probably an exceptionally good booking proposition", praising it for being exceptionally well made by Bentley and highlighted the performance of Volpe as Pickwick as remarkable amongst, before concluding that "Dickens lovers have a treat in store." The Daily News said that "the true spirit of Dickens, in his most genial and human vein has been caught more completely than in any stage play."


      See also


      List of lost films


      References




      External links


      The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick at IMDb
      British Film Institute 75 Most Wanted entry, with extensive notes

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