November 14, 2009
The absolute BEST adaptation of Charles Dickens ever put on film.
Alec Guinness, Anthony Wager, Bernard Miles
An orphan becomes a gentleman as the heir to a convict he once helped.
DVD Release Date: January 12, 1999
Stats: 350 reviews
Flixster Reviews (350)
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November 7, 2009The term 'classic' is often banded about with regard to films but I feel this one does warrant the term. A masterpiece of film-making by one of the best director's to take the chair. From the opening on the flat marshland framed by the hangman's gantry, this is wonderfully atmosp...( read more)
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January 12, 2009It is interesting watching 60 year old classic movies in B&W. I actually had not read this Dickens' classic yet, so I was introduced to the story by this movie. As expected, the movie is well done; for example Miss Havisham's wedding room is properly dreary. I have read how th...( read more)
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November 8, 2008The one and only Great Expectations movie all the rest do not live up to the book.
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September 12, 2008Lean certainly understood the art of adaptation. Not only were he and Noel Coward kindrid spirits but Lean also had an affinity for the works of Charles Dickens. It's no surprise then that even 60 years later Lean's adaptations are still the best versions of cinematic Dickens. He...( read more)
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November 16, 2009Everything about this film is magnificent. The cinematography is amazing, the art direction and costumes are superb. Well edited, great score. And the cast - everyone is marvelous. A truly great classic, that never bores and always enthralls.
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October 11, 2009Great Expectations is a 1946 British film directed by David Lean and based on the novel by Charles Dickens. It stars John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Finlay Currie, Martita Hunt, and Alec Guinness. Jean Simmons, who played the role of the young Estella in the film, later played Miss H...( read more)
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September 11, 2009I love old English movies and John Mills as Pip is fantastic. I've seen this movie heaps of times and can watch it again and again!
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August 22, 2009David Lean's Great Expectations is a film based on the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. The film is about a boy named Pip and follows him from childhood to early adulthood. In the film Pip's parents are dead and he lives with his sister and her husband, a blacksmith. Pip f...( read more)
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May 30, 2009The greatest film adaptation of a Charles Dickens novel. A film that proved British cinema could operate at the highest level. Masterfully directed and photographed, perfectly capturing the essence of a great novel.
Critic Reviews
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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August 13, 2006A superb film, i can watch it again and again and still never get bored of it
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