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22 November 1974 (USA) morePlot:
Charles Dickens' classic tale of Pip, a poor orphan who befriends an escaped convict and who grows up in the company of a bitter old woman... more | add synopsisAwards:
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Good adaptation of the Dickens classic moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Michael York | ... | Pip | |
| Sarah Miles | ... | Estella | |
| James Mason | ... | Magwitch | |
| Margaret Leighton | ... | Miss Havisham | |
| Robert Morley | ... | Uncle Pumblechook | |
| Anthony Quayle | ... | Jaggers | |
| Joss Ackland | ... | Joe Gargery | |
| Rachel Roberts | ... | Mrs. Gargery | |
| Andrew Ray | ... | Herbert Pocket | |
| Heather Sears | ... | Biddy | |
| Simon Gipps-Kent | ... | Young Pip | |
| James Faulkner | ... | Bentley Drummle | |
| Peter Bull | ... | Wemmick | |
| Sam Kydd | ... | Scarred Convict | |
| John Clive | ... | Mr. Wopsle |
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Netherlands:103 min | Peru:124 min | UK:124 min | USA:100 minLanguage:
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Filmed as a musical, but the songs were deleted prior to release. moreQuotes:
Jaggers: [to Pip] For whose sake would you reveal this?...Pip: For Estella's sake! If Drummle knew, he'd never marry her!
Jaggers: Ah, you'd save her, is that it? You'd drag her into disgrace after twenty years? She's chosen her own life and Drummle - remember that! Oh, if you must save someone, I think you might look a little closer to home.
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I got this film a tiny price in the Silver Classics series from Woolworths, at £2.79 cheaper than the local video shop (even if it were available, which is unlikely) and it surprised me.
Michael York as superb as the adult Pip, as is Joss Ackland as the humble Joe Gargery and Anthony Quayle as Jaggers, the rather cynical London lawyer. James Mason is good as the well-meaning convict, Abel Magwitch.
There don't appear to be any outside shots - all studio work - which is a shame, but the sets are brilliantly done, particularly the Blue Ball inn back by Romney and the marshes, and the stage coach office with its sign for 'Newhaven, Dartmouth, Plymouth'.
Of course, Sarah Miles has always been a remarkable beauty and she doesn't fail here either as Estella, boxed up in Satis House.
Overall, I would prefer the famous David Lean version, but this is still well worth watching.