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Great Expectations
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Great Expectations

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Orphan Phillip "Pip" Pirrip (Anthony Wager) lives with his shrewish older sister and her kind-hearted blacksmith husband, Joe Gargery (Bernard Miles). One day, Pip runs into an escaped convict, Abel Magwitch (Finlay Currie), who intimidates the boy into getting him some food and a file for his chains. Magwitch is caught when he attacks a hated fellow escapee, and is taken back to the prison ship.

Director
David Lean
Screenplay
David Lean · Ronald Neame · Anthony Havelock-Allan
Cast
John Mills · Anthony Wager · Jean Simmons · Valerie Hobson · Alec Guinness
Genre
drama
Runtime
118 min
Country
United Kingdom
Music
Walter Goehr
Cinematography
Guy Green
Awards
Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White · Óscar a la mejor dirección artística en blanco y negro · National Board of Review a las 10 Películas más Destacadas
Based on
Grandes esperanzas

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Dickens's London

Objects, not symbols: Marley's chain, made of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds and heavy purses wrought in steel, and the bandage holding his jaw shut. The giant candle extinguisher the first spirit carries under its arm for a cap, the second's torch shaped like a horn of plenty, and the faceless black robe with nothing showing but a single hand. On the other side, Satis House: the yellowing wedding dress, the bride-cake overrun with cobwebs, one shoe never put on, and every clock stopped at twenty to nine.

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