Great Expectations

Name: Great Expectations
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Released: May 22, 1947
Duration: 118 min
Rating: 90
Cast: Alec Guinness, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Francis L. Sullivan, Ivor Barnard

1947

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: May 22, 1947 | Approved

Starring: Alec Guinness, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Francis L. Sullivan, Ivor Barnard, Jean Simmons, John Mills, Martita Hunt, Tony Wager, Valerie Hobson

Summary: A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

Director: David Lean

Genre(s): Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Romance

Rating: Approved

Runtime: 118 min

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Roger Ebert

The greatest of all the Dickens films, and which does what few movies based on great books can do: Creates pictures on the screen that do not clash with the images already existing in our minds. Read full review

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

A masterful realization of Charles Dickens's novel, this may be the best cinematic translation of the author's work, as well as director David Lean's greatest achievement. Read full review

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Bosley Crowther

Somehow, the fullness of Dickens, of his stories and characters—his humor and pathos and vitality and all his brilliant command of atmosphere—has never been so illustrated as it is in this wonderful film, which can safely be recommended as screen story-telling at its best. Read full review

Mike Clark

David Lean's classic Cliffs Notes telescoping of Charles Dickens took Oscars for Guy Green's black-and-white photography and John Bryan's art direction, and you know right off that this is going to be a visual stunner as you watch fleeing prisoner Magwitch (Finlay Currie) dart across Green's spookily lit marshes. [22 Jan 1999]

Philip French

The best of four sound versions of Dickens's wonderful novel. Read full review

Don Druker

The graveyard scene is still a shocker, the details are still astonishingly well assembled, and the performances are wonderful. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Only rabid Dickensians will find fault with the present adaptation, and paradoxically only lovers of Dickens will derive maximum pleasure from the film. Read full review

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