Connection
Abel Magwitch
- Infos
- Photos
- Best films
If you like this character, let us know!
Abel Magwitch is a fictional character from Charles Dickens’ 1861 novel, Great Expectations.Best films
(1946)Played by the actors
Filmography of Abel Magwitch (7 films)
Add to a movie list
Great Expectations (2012)
, 2h8Directed by Mike Newell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about children
Actors Jeremy Irvine, Helena Bonham Carter, Gillian Anderson, Holliday Grainger, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Flemyng
Rating63%
This script must be run from the command line
Great Expectations (1999)
, 2h48Directed by Julian Jarrold
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about children
Actors Ioan Gruffudd, Justine Waddell, Charlotte Rampling, Gabriel Thomson, Bernard Hill, Laura Aikman
Rating71%
A young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few years later, Pip finds that he has a benefactor. Imagining that Miss Havisham, a rich lady whose adopted daughter Estella he loves, is the benefactor, Pip believes in a grand plan at the end of which he will be married to Estella. However, when the criminal from his childhood turns up one stormy night and reveals that he, Magwitch, is his benefactor, Pip finds his dreams crumbling. Although initially repulsed by his benefactor, Pip gradually becomes loyal to him and stays with him until his death.
Great Expectations (1998)
, 1h51Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about children, Children's films
Actors Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Chris Cooper, Jeremy James Kissner, Hank Azaria, Anne Bancroft
Rating67%
10-year-old Finnegan "Finn" Bell is playing on a beach in the Gulf Coast when an escaped convict suddenly pops out of the water and overpowers him, making Finn promise to bring back food, medicine and bolt cutters to get the iron shackles off his leg. Finn complies, and the convict unexpectedly tries to make Finn take him by boat to Mexico. The police seize the small boat heading out to sea. The convict hides on a buoy, and Finn's boat is towed back to shore. The next day, Finn sees on the news that the convict, mobster Arthur Lustig, had escaped from death row, but was recaptured and would face execution soon.
, 1h42Directed by Tim Burstall
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children
Actors Sigrid Thornton, Anne-Louise Lambert, John Stanton, Robert Coleby, Todd Boyce, Ron Haddrick
Rating65%
Magwitch is sentenced to life in New South Wales. He is put on a chain gang run by Solomon Tooth and eventually amasses a fortune.
Great Expectations (1974)
, 2h4Directed by Joseph Hardy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about children
Actors Michael York, Sarah Miles, James Mason, Margaret Leighton, Robert Morley, Anthony Quayle
Rating60%
Un jour qu’il se rend sur la tombe de ses parents, Pip vient en aide à un évadé en volant de la nourriture chez ses tuteurs. Quelque temps plus tard, le garçon est conduit dans une étrange demeure où le temps semble s’être arrêté. Il y rencontre une sinistre vieille dame et sa jeune protégée, Estella, qui le fascine. Ces événements changeront à jamais la destinée de Pip…
Great Expectations (1946)
, 1h58Directed by David Lean, George Pollock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about children
Actors John Mills, Jean Simmons, Valerie Hobson, Alec Guinness, Martita Hunt, Finlay Currie
Rating77%
Orphan Phillip "Pip" Pirrip (Anthony Wager) lives with his shrewish older sister and her kind-hearted blacksmith husband, Joe Gargery (Bernard Miles). One day, Pip runs into an escaped convict, Abel Magwitch (Finlay Currie), who intimidates the boy into getting him some food and a file for his chains. Magwitch is caught when he attacks a hated fellow escapee, and is taken back to the prison ship.
Great Expectations (1917)
, 50minutesDirected by Robert G. Vignola, Joseph Kaufman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children
Actors Jack Pickford, Louise Huff, Frank Losee, Marcia Harris, Herbert Prior
Rating64%
A young boy, Pip, runs into an escaped convict at his local churchyard. Pip does favours for Magwitch (the convict), such as bringing him food etc. until Magwitch is eventually arrested and deported to Australia.