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Play Time: 118 mins
Drama, Romance
Great Expectations

Overview:
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.

Status: Released (1946-12-26)
Awards:Won 2 Oscars. 4 wins & 4 nominations total
Screen:Charles Dickens, David Lean, Ronald Neame
Productions: Cineguild, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
Production Countries: United Kingdom
Spoken Languages: English
Great Expectations
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If I were ever to be given the chance to be a fly-on-the-wall at a conversation, then It'd have to be one with Charles Dickens and David Lean. How the latter managed to visualise and dramatise so expertly the finely honed characters of the former is astonishing. In this, possibly les ....

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