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Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Country
United Kingdom
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Year
1947
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Genres
Drama Period drama
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Introduction
“A large amount of its visual pleasure is derived from the superlative photography of the Medway Saltings, and a recognition of the mordant beauty of English ‘weather’.”
Richard Winnington, News Chronicle, 1946
Taking on Charles Dickens’s classic novel – a mix of coming-of-age story, social satire and gothic fable – David Lean and his collaborators establish the special credentials of their own medium in the opening reel, covering the orphan Pip’s fateful meeting with convict Magwitch in a Kent churchyard with a tour de force of moving camerawork, expressionist lighting and knife-edge editing.
Plucked from the provinces by an allowance from a mystery benefactor, Pip subsequently goes up in the world, but John Mills’s mild performance as the adult hero is upstaged by vivid supporting turns from Jean Simmons as the Young Estella, Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham and – in the first of his five roles for Lean – Alec Guinness as Herbert Pocket.
Alfonso Cuaron’s 1998 remake relocated the action to present-day Florida and New York, with Ethan Hawke as Pip, renamed Finnegan, and Gwyneth Paltrow as Estella.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Pip
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Estella / Molly
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Joe Gargery
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Mr Jaggers
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Miss Havisham
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Abel Magwitch
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Herbert Pocket
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Mr Wemmick
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Mrs Joe Gargery
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young Pip
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young Estella
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Biddy
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the convict
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Uncle Pumblechook
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the pale young gentleman
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Bentley Drummle
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the aged parent
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Mr Wopsle
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The Sergeant
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Mrs Wopsle
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Sarah Pocket
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relation
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Mike
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night porter
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Mrs Whimple
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the dancing master
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galley steersman
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Credits
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Direction:
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Directed by
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[2nd Unit Director]
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[2nd Unit Director]
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Assistant Director
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[Assistant Director (2nd)]
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[Assistant Director (3rd)]
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[Assistant Director (2nd Unit 1st)]
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Continuity
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[Continuity (2nd Unit)]
Production:
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J. Arthur Rank Presents
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A Cineguild Production
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[Production Company]
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Executive Producer
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Produced by
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Production Manager
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[Location Manager]
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Made at
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Studio
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[Last 3 weeks]
Writing:
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Adapted for the Screen by
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Adapted for the Screen by
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Adapted for the Screen by
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[Adapted for the Screen] With
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[Adapted for the Screen] With
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Based on the novel by
Photography:
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Photographed by
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[Director of Photography - Started]
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[2nd Unit Director of Photography]
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Camera Operator
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[Camera Operator (2nd Unit)]
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[Camera Operator (2nd)]
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[Camera Operator (2nd Unit 2nd)]
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[Focus Puller]
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[Clapper/Loader]
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[Clapper/Loader]
Stills:
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[Stills]
Special Effects:
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[Back Projection]
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[Models]
Editing:
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Film Editor
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[Assistant Editor]
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[Assistant Editor (2nd)]
Design:
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Production Designed by
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Art Director
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[Assistant Art Director]
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[Draughtsman]
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[Draughtsman]
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[Production Buyer]
Costumes:
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Costumes Designed by
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[Costume Designer] Assisted by
Make-up:
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[Make-up]
Music:
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Musical Score Composed and Conducted by
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[Music Performed] With
Choreography:
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Dances Arranged by
Sound:
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Sound Recordist
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Sound Recordist
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[Production Mixer]
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[Production Mixer]
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[Music Sound Camera]
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[Sound Camera Operator]
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[Sound Camera Operator]
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[Boom Operator]
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[Boom Assistant]
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[Maintenance Engineer]
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[Maintenance Engineer]
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[Dubbing Crew]
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[Dubbing Crew]
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[Dubbing Crew]
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Sound Editor
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[Assistant Sound Editor]
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[Sound Effects Recording]
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Sound System
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