Word: cheapjack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might have been a much better movie than it is at 109. Yet the direction, by Noel Langley, has a real Dickensian rollick, and the acting is stylish, if not brilliant caricature. James Hayter is a dear old tub as Pickwick; Nigel Patrick, as Jingle, makes a properly swagger cheapJack; and Comedienne Joyce Grenfell, as Mrs. Leo Hunter, the aristocratic wreck who holds the "literahry fawncy-dress breakfast," positively improves on the book by revealing when she smiles a dental arch of the sort that no doubt inspired the design of London Bridge...
...hero (John Berry) is a lower-middle-class youth with a small mind and big ideas. He winds up in the clink, partly the victim of the world he inhabits, partly the victim of his own shoddy desires, chiefly the victim of Playwright Manoffs cluttered, cheapjack dramaturgy...