Great Expectations

TV Movie
1974
Not Rated
2h 4m

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A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

Director
- Joseph Hardy
Writers
- Sherman Yellen
- Charles Dickens
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

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YOUR RATING

Director
- Joseph Hardy
Writers
- Sherman Yellen
- Charles Dickens
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination total

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Trivia
Filmed as a musical, but the songs were abandoned seven weeks into filming. According to Michael York, they interrupted the narrative flow.

Goofs
At the dance when Estella returns to her seat one of her suitors says "Miss Estella, remember you promised me the next dance?" another suitor says "Nonsense, I have your solemn promise you'd save the next dance for me" - Immediately after this there is an audible fart.

Quotes
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.

Crazy credits
Opening credits prologue: The Beginning 1830

Alternate versions
The version shown in the U.S. was cut to 103 minutes to make room for commercials. The European version, meant for movie theatres, is more than twenty minutes longer. As of 2010, the full-length European version has begun to be shown on cable TV in the U.S.

Connections
Edited into George Burns Comedy Week: Christmas Carol II: The Sequel (1985)

Soundtracks
Good King Wenceslas
(uncredited)
Traditional tune, lyrics by John M. Neale and Thomas Helmore

User reviews19

Featured review

4/10

Faint praise

Given the all-star cast - a 'name' in almost every role - I was surprised that I'd never heard of this adaptation until accidentally finding it on a repeats tv channel today. As the film proceeded I quickly realised why this is so. I doubt whether any of the famous actors fondly remember their participation. Enjoyable though it always is to see York, Mason, Leighton, Miles, Quayle, Ray, Morley, Bull et all, without doubt it is a wooden script they deliver and every other televised or filmed version I've seen over the last fifty years is better than this one.