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Great Expectations is a american film of genre Drama directed by Stuart Walker released in USA on 22 october 1934 with Phillips Holmes
Great Expectations (1934)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 22 october 1934
Length 1h40
Directed by Stuart Walker
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children
Rating61%
Great Expectations is a 1934 adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. Filmed with mostly American actors, it was the first sound version of the novel and was produced in Hollywood by Universal Studios and directed by Stuart Walker. It stars Phillips Holmes as Pip, Jane Wyatt as Estella and Florence Reed as Miss Havisham.
Critics consider this 1934 version far inferior to the classic 1946 version, made in England and directed by David Lean. A notable link between the two movies is that Francis L. Sullivan played the role of Jaggers in both.
This film differs somewhat from the novel in making Miss Havisham more eccentric than insane. Unlike the novel, she does not wear her bridal veil constantly, does not seem to have really engineered all of Pip's misfortunes with Estella, and dies offscreen of natural causes rather than in a fire.
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Pirrip, âgé de 9 ans, orphelin vivant avec des parents, aide et se lie d'amitié avec un condamné évadé sur les landes, un acte qui aura un effet profond sur sa vie.Actors
Phillips Holmes
(Pip)
Henry Hull
(Abel Magwitch)
Jane Wyatt
(Estella)
Valerie Hobson
Florence Reed
(Miss Havisham)
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