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Great Expectations
From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!
From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!
Drama, Romance - 1946
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In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Director:
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David Lean
Cast:
,
Valerie Hobson
,
Bernard Miles
,
Finlay Currie
,
John Mills
,
Jean Simmons
,
Martita Hunt
,
Anthony Wager
,
Francis L. Sullivan
,
Tony Wager

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Rated:
Approved
Runtime:
118 min
Release date:
26 Dec 1946
Country:
GB
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
Won 2 Oscars. 4 wins & 4 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
[It] has been called the greatest of all the Dickens films, and [it] does what few movies based on great books can do: Creates pictures on the screen that do not clash with the images already existing in our minds.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
[A] glowing illumination of the warm and deliciously surprising tale.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
David Lean's black-and-white masterpiece may be a whirlwind tour of Dickens' novel, but what a well-performed, economic and atmospheric tour it is.
– Dave Calhoun,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
The graveyard scene is still a shocker, the details are still astonishingly well assembled, and the performances are wonderful.
– Don Druker,
Chicago Reader,
6 Nov 2007
fresh:
Only rabid Dickensians will find fault with the present adaptation, and paradoxically only lovers of Dickens will derive maximum pleasure from the film.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
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