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Julie Taymor’s Adventures in Moviegoing

Great Expectations

1h 58m

Directed by David Lean • 1946 • United Kingdom
Starring John Mills, Finlay Currie, Martita Hunt

One of the great translations of literature into film, David Lean’s GREAT EXPECTATIONS brings Charles Dickens’s masterpiece to robust on-screen life. Pip, Magwitch, Miss Havisham, and Estella populate Lean’s magnificent miniature, beautifully photographed by Guy Green and designed by John Bryan.

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