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Great Expectations (1946) (Criterion Collection Spine #31)
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	List Price: $39.95 Our Price: $30.99 You Save: $8.96 *Features* • Black & White • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 12 December, 1947 DVD Release : 12 January, 1999
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Great Expectations (1946) (Criterion Collection Spine #31) description
David Lean's handsome adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic novel captures the warm humor and richness of character that so many filmmakers miss in their reverent recreations of Victorian England. From the nightmarish opening sequence on the windswept graveyard where young orphan Pip (Anthony Wager) meets the desperate escaped criminal Magwitch (Finlay Currie) to the shadowy, musty mansion of the widow Miss Haversham (Martita Hunt) where he first meets the impertinent young beauty Estella (Jean Simmons), Lean captures a childlike exaggeration of reality with his elegant expressionism. When Pip's sudden change in fortune sends him to London as a burgeoning gentleman in high society, Lean sketches a beautiful, bustling city. John Mills's performance as the adult Pip charts his change from the wide-eyed wonder and generous spirit of the child he was to the class snob transformed by money and social standing, an ugly flaw that Pip confronts when his mysterious benefactor is finally revealed. The outstanding cast also features Valerie Hobson as the grown-up Estella, now a beguiling enchantress, a bright young Alec Guinness in his film debut as Pip's jovial London roommate Herbert Pocket, and the imposing Francis L. Sullivan as the decidedly humorless lawyer Jaggers. Exquisitely photographed by Guy Green (who won an Oscar for his work). Lean and his collaborators effectively maintain the heart of Dickens's epic drama while cutting it to its essentials in this vivid, compelling film. --Sean Axmaker

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I watched this classic story long ago and had forgotten about it until reading the story again. I had a hard time finding this old English version. My personal opinion is that the English productions are much better quality than what comes out of Hollywood for the classics especially. I have a sentimental attachment to this film because it came out the year I was born and has such great character actors and actresses in it. As in other classical movies it does not match the book in the way it develops the characters. Case in point - there was no development of Estella's mother in the movie until right at the end. Whereas in the book it started early in developing that she might be the mother of Estella. Still all in all it came through with a great depiction of a Charles Dickens masterpiece.

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