After the death of his father, Nicholas Nickleby (Derek Bond), and his mother and sister are cared for by his greedy uncle Ralph (Cedric Hardwicke), who arranges for Nicholas to get a job at a notoriously brutal school for boys, Nicholas befriend and ill-treated student, Smike, and they soon flee the school and join a theatrical troop. Nicholas then tries to stop his Uncle Ralph from taking advantage of his sister. Based on Charles Dickens' classic. Black and White. Approx. 107 minutes.