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Great Expectations

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:54:46 -0500

Charles Dickens' immortal tale of Pip, an orphan given the opportunity to break free from poverty to live life as an educated gentleman. Pip is a poor orphan who befriends an escaped convict and grows up in the company of a bitter old woman, Miss Havisham, and her haughty young ward, Estella. Pip learns the rewards of both vindictiveness and gratitude as a result of these events. All the drama, heartache and triumph of Dickens comes alive in this stunning portrayal by world-class actors.

Great Expectations: Episode 2

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:50:47 -0500

Episode Two begins as young Pip?s future ? despite his desire for an education and change in his status ? is being drawn up: he will become Joe?s apprentice at the forgery. As Pip (Ioan Gruffudd) grows from a boy to a young man, there seems little hope that his dreams will ever be fulfilled until he is visited one day by a lawyer, Jaggers (Ian McDiarmid). Jaggers informs Pip that he has an anonymous benefactor: Pip may accept the chance offered to him to travel to London and live and be educated as a gentleman, but it is a condition of acceptance that the benefactor?s identity remain concealed. Pip mistakenly assumes that Miss Havisham is responsible for this change in his fortune. He still believes that he is in love with Estella (Justine Waddell), and now considers that he has a real chance of marrying her one day.

Great Expectations (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Deceive and Entrap

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:40:22 -0500

Estella (Valerie Hobson) dances with Bentley Drummie (Torin Thatcher) then with "Pip" (John Mills), with whom she is cruelly candid in David Lean's Great Expectations, 1946.

Great Expectations (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Your Liberal Benefactor

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:40:22 -0500

The now-mature "Pip," (John Mills) while at work with blacksmith Joe Gargery (Bernard Miles) gets a propitious visit from the lawyer Jaggers (Frances L. Sullivan) in David Lean's Great Expectations, 1946.

Great Expectations (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Estella

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:40:22 -0500

The grown-up "Pip," (John Mills) visits Miss Havisham (Martita Hunt) and sees Estella (now Valerie Hobson) for the first time since childhood in David Lean's Great Expectations, 1946.

Great Expectations (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Miss Havisham

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:40:22 -0500

Pip (Anthony Wager) studies the bizarre surroundings as he meets Miss Havisham (Martita Hunt) and plays cards with young Estella (Jean Simmons) in David Lean's Great Expectations, 1946.

Great Expectations: Episode 1

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:16:22 -0500

Young Pip (Gabriel Thomson) lives with his tyrranical sister (Lesley Sharp) and her blacksmith husband, Joe. Joe will always care for Pip, but his wife's exacting criticism and harsh tongue forge an extra bond between the kindly blacksmith and the young boy. A nightmarish encounter with an escaped convict, Magwitch, (Bernard Hill) is a monumental event in Pip's childhood, as is his enforced visit to the stately Satis House.There he meets rich, eccentric Miss Havisham (Charlotte Rampling) who lives alone with her adopted daughter, Estella (Gemma Gregory). Pip is lured and repelled by the young Estella, who seems to him proud and rude, but is, unarguably, exceptionally beautiful. Estella mocks Pip for his humble status so that he longs even more to be rich and educated - as she is. Episode One draws to a close as a confused and unhappy Pip is informed by Miss Havisham that his company at Satis House will no longer be required, as Estella is soon to go to school. Challenged to a fight by

Great Expectations

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:51:33 -0500

Modernization of Charles Dickens classic story finds the hapless Finn as a painter in New York pursuing his unrequited and haughty childhood love.

Great Expectations

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:13:43 -0500

Modernization of Charles Dickens classic story finds the hapless Finn as a painter in New York pursuing his unrequited and haughty childhood love.

Great Expectations

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:34:23 -0500

Loosely based on the classic Charles Dickens novel of the same name, GREAT EXPECTATIONS is the sensual tale of a young man's passage into manhood and of the three individuals who change the course of his life forever.