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Part one of an ambitious six-hour adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel starts with the return of Arthur Clennam (Derek Jacobi) to London after for several ye...
Oct 21, 1988 · Jacobi is wonderful as the gentle, unlucky Arthur Clennam, who keeps finding that through nobody's fault, he keeps missing out on happiness. It is sweetly heartbreaking to follow his growing affection for Minnie Meagles, only to watch her throw herself away on a conceited young fool, whom even she seems to realize cannot equal Clennam in worth.
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- Drama, Romance
- Christine Edzard
- 1988-10-21
Little Dorrit, Part One (1988) -- (Movie Clip) Nobody's Fault Fredrick Dorrit (Cyril Cusack) escorts lawyer Clennam (Derek Jacobi) to meet his inmate brother William (Alec Guinness, his first scene) at the Marshalsea prison, where the author Charles Dickens' father spent some time, in Little Dorrit: Part One, 1988, Sarah Pickering the title ...
- Christine Edzard
- Derek Jacobi, Sarah Pickering, Alec Guinness
The first part was subtitled Nobody's Fault, an allusion to one of Dickens' proposed titles for the original novel, and the story developed from the perspective and experiences of the Arthur Clennam character.
Max Wall. Flintwinch. Little Dorrit Part One: Nobody's Fault. Part two of a six-hour adaptation of Dickens' novel tells the Dorrit family saga from the viewpoint of youngest daughter Amy (Sarah Pickering), born and raised in Marshalsea prison.
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Lawyer Clennam (Derek Jacobi) fulfills his promise to meet "Little" Dorrit (Sarah Pickering), daughter of an imprisoned debtor he hopes to help, on London's Iron Bridge, in the 1988 production from the Dickens novel, Little Dorrit: Part One.