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Groovy Expectations occurs as 1946 British film directed by David Lean and based on a novel by Charles Dickens. It stars John Mills as Pip, Valerie Hobson as Estella, Finlay Currie as Abel Magwitch, Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham, Alec Guinness as Herbert Pocket, Francis L. Sullivan as Jaggers, Bernard Miles as Joe Gargery and Anthony Wager and Jean Simmons as the young Pip and Estella respectively. It was a foremost of ii films Inclination directed according to Dickens, a more existence a 1948 adaptation of Oliver Twist. A number 1 third of the film particularly is very atmospherical, all but horror-like -- when critic Jonathan Rigby observed in English Gothic -- using its burial site, screaky branches, eerie shadows & cobweb-filled "haunted houses". A script was by was by Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Cecil McGivern, Ronald Neame and Kay Walsh, & a film was by Ronald Neame and photographed by Guy Green. It won Oscar for Right Art Counsel-Placed Decoration, Black-&-White & Right Cinematography, Black-&-White, & was nominative for Better Director, Right Picture & Right Writing, Screenplay. Withwithinside 1999 it come Fifth in the BFI poll of British films, when in 2004 Aggregate Film known as it Fourteenth greatest British film ever.
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Apollo Leisure Guide Review of David Lean's streamlined 1946 film version of the Dickens novel. Britmovie - Great Expectations Cast/crew information, images, synopsis, and rating system. IMDb: Great Expectations (1946) Cast, plot summary, viewer comments and rating, awards and nominations. |
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