Magwitch (2012)

Actors: Charles Dickens (writer), Candis Nergaard (actress), Nathaniel Gleed (actor), Samuel Supple (writer), Samuel Supple (director), David Verrey (actor), Sean Cole (editor), Jeremy Birchall (composer), Alexia James (actress), Clyde Young (actor), Samuel Edward-Cook (actor), Alice Barnard (writer), Jennie Douglas (costume designer), Debra McGee (producer), Ellen Sussams (actress),

Plot: "Hold your noise!" - are the first words the convict Abel Magwitch growls at Pip in "Great Expectations". But what were the events that led him to become this manacled man covered in blood and mud? The story begins with Magwitch in solitary confinement upon a Prison Hulk. Suffering from a fever, the convict dreams about a life gone by, from his first crime to his first love and the daughter he lost forever. Inspired by the Charles Dickens Novel "Great Expectations".

Keywords: charles-dickens, great-expectations
Genres: Drama, Short,
Taglines: Mad? Bad? Misunderstood? The untold story of one of Dickens most colourful and enduring villains.

Great Expectations (1999)

Actors: Ioan Gruffudd (actor), Chris Gill (editor), Charlotte Rampling (actress), Jo Cameron Brown (actress), Jon Baker (miscellaneous crew), Charles Dickens (writer), Clive Russell (actor), Tony Curran (actor), Donald Sumpter (actor), Bernard Hill (actor), Rebecca Eaton (producer), Michael Wearing (producer), Lesley Sharp (actress), Bill Thomas (actor), Ian McDiarmid (actor),

Plot: Young Pip is expected to become a blacksmith, but, hating the soot and smoke, he secretly dreams of becoming a gentleman. When he meets the mysterious Miss Havisham and her haughty niece Estella, Pip is confident that his dream is to come true.

Keywords: 19th-century, based-on-novel, benefactor, blacksmith, charles-dickens, criminal, crush, domestic-violence, great-expectations, lawyer
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Miss Havisham: You cold, cold heart!::Estella: Do you reproach ME of being cold? I learned your lessons. I am what you have made me.::Miss Havisham: So proud!::Estella: Who taught me to be proud? Who told me that daylight would blight me, that I may not go out in it and now I cannot? I have never once been unfaithful to you or to your 'schooling'. I have never shown any weakness that I can charge myself with!::Miss Havisham: Would it be weakness to return respect? To return love?::Estella: 'Love'?

Pip: It seems that these past few years I have been harbouring an illusion. More than one, in fact... And you humoured them. You led me on...::Miss Havisham: Yes, I let you go on.::Pip: Was that kind?::Miss Havisham: Who am I, for God's sake, that I should be kind?

Herbert Pocket: [after meeting Magwitch at Pip's apartment] "Have I the pleasure of meeting Mr. Joe Gargery, then? You are not as Pip describes you."

Great Expectations: The Untold Story (1986)

Actors: Phillip Hinton (actor), Antony I. Ginnane (producer), Ron Haddrick (actor), Charles Dickens (writer), Tom Burstall (producer), Tim Burstall (director), Bruce Spence (actor), Tim Burstall (writer), Martin Vaughan (actor), Robert Coleby (actor), Todd Boyce (actor), Sigrid Thornton (actress), Sigrid Thornton (producer), Gerard Kennedy (actor), Les Foxcroft (actor),

Plot: This very different version of the Charles Dickens timeless story set in the mid-19th century follows the adventures of Magwitch, the escaped convict who forced the young Pip to hide and steal for him in the first part of the story. Then it settles to Magwitch's wonderings through Europe and his journey to Australia where it shows the means he used to become a wealthy gentleman and the reasons he decided to become Pip's benefactor.

Keywords: charles-dickens
Genres: Drama,

Les grandes espérances (1968)

Actors: Paul Villé (actor), Charles Vanel (actor), Fred Personne (actor), Martin Trévières (actor), Bernard Musson (actor), Paul Rieger (actor), Jean-Claude Dauphin (actor), Teddy Bilis (actor), Michel Robin (actor), Paul Le Person (actor), Jean-Roger Caussimon (actor), Clément Harari (actor), Jacques Hilling (actor), Paul Mercey (actor), Martine Ferrière (actress),

Genres: Drama,

Great Expectations (1934)

Actors: Francis L. Sullivan (actor), Reginald Barlow (actor), Hayden Stevenson (actor), George P. Breakston (actor), Walter Brennan (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Robert Adair (actor), Herbert Evans (actor), Alan Hale (actor), Forrester Harvey (actor), Phillips Holmes (actor), Henry Hull (actor), Thomas R. Mills (actor), Jackie Searl (actor), Lloyd Whitlock (actor),

Plot: Nine year-old orphan 'Pip' Pirrip lives with his harridan older sister and her hen-pecked but good-natured blacksmith husband Joe Gargery in rural, Regency-Period Britain. While visiting his mother's grave near the moors, Pip is set upon by Abel Magwitch, an escaped convict from a prison ship whose intimidating appearance causes Pip to steal food and drink from the Gargeries on his behalf. Although Magwitch had initially threatened Pip, a bond quickly forms between the hardened criminal and the boy, so when the convict is recaptured, he admits to stealing the food, but does not implicate his young accomplice. Shortly thereafter Pip receives an invitation from Mrs. Havisham, a wealthy recluse living in a crumbling mansion to play with her niece Estella. He finds her haughty and cruel but becomes attracted to her beauty as his visits continue. Some time later the Gargeries receive a visit from the condescending lawyer Mr. Javers, who offers Pip an education and allowance that will allow Pip to be free of the grinding poverty of rural England and give him access to the opportunity and sophistication that only London can offer, all at the expense of an anonymous benefactor. As Pip grows to be a young man, he naturally contemplates his sponsor's identity and wonders if it may be the wealthy Miss Havisham.

Keywords: 19th-century, adoptive-father, based-on-novel, benefactor, blacksmith, boat-chase, charles-dickens, christ-figure, convict, escaped-convict
Genres: Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

Prisoner on Ship: What are you sniveling about?::Second prisoner: My poor mother came to see me off.::Prisoner on Ship: [Amused] Mine was too drunk to come.

Jaggers: Well, Mr. Pip, if you want to become a gentleman, the sooner you leave this house, the better.

Prison Doctor: Abel Magwitch shall not die on the gallows, Mr. Pirrip.

Estella: Before Miss Havisham died, she told me her teachings were false... that love is worth all the suffering and pain that goes with it.::Pip: Do you believe that, Estella?::Estella: You once told me that you loved me, Pip. [They embrace]

Store forventninger (1922)

Actors: Peter Nielsen (actor), A.W. Sandberg (director), Charles Dickens (writer), Marie Dinesen (actress), Laurids Skands (writer), Martin Herzberg (actor), Gerhard Jessen (actor), Olga Belajeff (actress), Harry Komdrup (actor), Egill Rostrup (actor), Emil Helsengreen (actor), Ellen Rovsing (actress), Hjalmar Bendtsen (actor), Alfred Meyer (actor), Ellen Lilien (actress),

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