Opening to David Copperfield 1985 MGM/UA VHS

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Print date: 12/18/1985

MGM's star studded 1935 film adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel veers more towards high comedy than other adaptations and also omits a number of characters and events. However, it's still an entertaining movie and one of the better films to come out of the MGM factory in the 1930s.

This 1985 video release was part of a wave of tapes dubbed Great Books on Video, in which MGM/UA culled just about every major (and even a few minor) literary adaptations from their film library and packaged them in an attractive clamshell case with artwork resembling a leather bound book. The typically silver MGM/UA video labels were replaced with gold tinted labels, a novelty that was used only for this series of tapes and the original release of Gone with the Wind that same year.

1. Warning Scroll
2. B&W MGM/UA Home Video logo
3. Start of Film