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GREAT EXPECTATIONS
February 25, 2014  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET

 

This 1946 David Lean movie is a classic film version of a classic Charles Dickens novel. It’s got something for everyone, with Tony Wager and John Mills splitting the role of Pip, and Jean Simmons and Valerie Hobson splitting the role of Estella, with Martita Hunt as an appropriately creepy Miss Havisham. For my dad, the most memorable part of Great Expectations, when he saw it as a young teen, was the sudden scare of the convict jumping out of the tree. For me, when I first saw the film at about the same age, it was Jean Simmons as the young Estella. So beautiful. So icy. So mercurial.

 
 
 
 
 
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