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Great Expectations is a 1946 British drama film directed by David Lean, based on the 1861 novel by Charles Dickens and starring John Mills and Valerie Hobson. The supporting cast included Bernard Miles , Francis L. Sullivan , Anthony Wager , Jean Simmons , Finlay Currie , Martita Hunt and Alec Guinness .
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by English author Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip . It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield , to be fully narrated in the first person.
1946 John Bryan: Caesar and Cleopatra: Nominated Paul Sheriff Carmen Dillon: Henry V: Nominated Sheriff is a Russian-born British art director. 1947 Wilfred Shingleton John Bryan: Great Expectations: Won 1948 Arthur Lawson: The Red Shoes: Won Best Colour Art Direction award. Shared with Hein Heckroth. Roger K. Furse Carmen Dillon Hamlet: Won
William Finlay Currie [1] (20 January 1878 – 9 May 1968) was a British actor of stage, screen, and television. [2] [3] He received great acclaim for his roles as Abel Magwitch in the British film Great Expectations (1946) and as Balthazar in the American film Ben-Hur (1959).
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The Wicked Lady (1945) was an international success, but her next film role in David Lean's Great Expectations (1946) would be her most famous and most lauded. [3] As Miss Havisham, she reprised her role from the 1939 stage adaptation by Alec Guinness, which provided the inspiration and template for Lean's film.
COMMENT: ‘Peaky Blinders’ creator Steven Knight’s take on the Charles Dickens classic premieres on the BBC this weekend, following adaptations by Alfonso Cuarón and Mike Newell. But does ...
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