Great Expectations
Capsule by Don Druker
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This 1946 film would be interesting--apart from the sumptuousness of the production--if only because it was Alec Guinness's first appearance in pictures. The graveyard scene is still a shocker, the details are still astonishingly well assembled, and the performances are wonderful. With Anthony Wager and John Mills as Pip, Jean Simmons and Valerie Hobson as Estella, Guinness as Herbert Pocket, and Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, and Martita Hunt. Winner of three Oscars, including best cinematography (Guy Green) and production design (John Bryan). David Lean directed. 118 min.

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