Great Expectations (1946) (original) (raw)
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Original title
Great Expectations
Year
1946
Running time
118 min.
Country
United Kingdom
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Genre
Drama. Romance | Costume Drama. 19th Century
Movie Groups
Charles Dickens Adaptations | Great Expectations
Synopsis
Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife 'Mrs. Joe'. When the boy finds two hidden escaped galley convicts, he obeys under -probably unnecessary- threat of a horrible death to bring the criminals food he must steal at peril of more caning from the battle-ax. Just when Pip fears to get it really good while they have guests, a soldier comes for Joe who takes Pip along as assistant to work on the chains of escaped galley-convicts, who are soon caught. The better-natured one takes the blame for the stolen food. Later Pip is invited to became the playmate of Estelle, the equally arrogant adoptive daughter of gloomy, filthy rich Miss Havisham at her estate, who actually has 'permission' to break the kind kid's heart; being the only pretty girl he ever saw, she wins his heart forever, even after a mysterious benefactor pays trough a lawyer for his education and a rich allowance, so he can become a snob in London, by now 'ashamed' of simple Joe. Only after years in idle wealth, Pip learns Havisham is not his benefactor as he assumed, and both her story and those of his real sponsor and Estelle...
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Awards
1947: 2 Academy Awards: Best Cinematography B&W, Art Direction B&W. 5 Nominations
1947: New York Film Critics Circle: Nominated for Best Film
1947: National Board of Review (NBR): nominated to Top Films (In alphabetical order).
Critics' reviews
- "Only rabid Dickensians will find fault with the present adaptation, and paradoxically only lovers of Dickens will derive maximum pleasure from the film."
- "The graveyard scene is still a shocker, the details are still astonishingly well assembled, and the performances are wonderful."
- "This is still the definitive version of Charles Dickens' amospheric and occasionally creepy classic."
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