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Great Expectations 118 minutes, UK (1946), PG
(4.5)
Rating: 4.5 Stars
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John Mills and Alec Guinness in Great Expectations

John Mills is the orphan who enters high society in David Lean's Oscar-winning 1946 adaptation of the great Dickens' novel

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Great Expectations: Released a year after Lean's lachrymose classic Brief Encounter , Great Expectations was the director's first film not to have been written by Noel Coward. Inevitably, the sprawl of Dickens' novel is much pared down but the result is an exceptionally well judged adaptation populated by some of Dickens' most memorable characters...
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