German title: Geheimnisvolle Erbschaft Francaise title: Les grandes espérances Spain title: Cadenas rotas Greek title: Μεγάλες προσδοκίες Russian title: Большие надежды Original title: Great Expectations
Alternative titles: Große Erwartungen | Големите надежди | Grandes esperanzas | Die großen Erwartungen | Великі сподівання | Charles Dickens: Geheimnisvolle Erbschaft
Literature movie – United Kingdom Production year: 1945 Movie length: 118 minutes
Director: David Lean Writer: Charles Dickens, David Lean, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Kay Walsh, Cecil McGivern Cinematograph: Guy Green Music: Walter Goehr
Movie description:
Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations between his terrifying experience in a graveyard with a convict named Magwitch and his humiliating visits with the eccentric Miss Havisham’s beautiful but manipulative niece, Estella, who torments him until he is elevated to wealth by an anonymous benefactor.
Charles Dickens’ classic tale of Pip, a poor orphan who befriends an escaped convict and who 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.
Anthony Wager plays the role of the young Pip in the first half of the movie.