Great Expectations (1946 film)
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| Directed by | David Lean |
| Produced by |
Anthony Havelock-Allan Ronald Neame |
| Written by | David Lean Anthony Havelock-Allan Cecil McGivern Ronald Neame Kay Walsh |
| Based on |
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| Starring |
John Mills Anthony Wager Jean Simmons Valerie Hobson Alec Guinness Martita Hunt Finlay Currie |
| Music by | Walter Goehr |
| Cinematography | Guy Green, (Robert Krasker shot opening sequence) |
| Edited by | Jack Harris |
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| Distributed by |
General Film Distributors (GFD) Ltd. (UK) Universal-International (US) |
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113 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | ₤375,000 |
| Box office | $2 million (US rentals) |
Great Expectations is a 1946 British film directed by David Lean, based on the novel by Charles Dickens and starring John Mills, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Jean Simmons, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness and Valerie Hobson. It won two Academy Awards (Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography) and was nominated for three others (Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay).
The script, a slimmed-down version of Dickens' novel – inspired after David Lean witnessed an abridged 1939 stage version of the novel, in which Guinness (responsible for the adaptation) had played Herbert Pocket, and Martita Hunt was Miss Havisham – was written by David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Cecil McGivern, Ronald Neame and Kay Walsh. Guinness and Hunt reprised their roles in the film, but the film was not a strict adaptation of the stage version. The film was produced by Ronald Neame and photographed by Guy Green. It was the first of two films Lean directed based on Dickens' novels, the other being his 1948 adaptation of Oliver Twist.
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.
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