Search the Kids Internet
Encyclopedia > Great Expectations (movie)
Article Content
Great Expectations (movie)
Great Expectations is a 1917 film based on the Charles Dickens story about an orphan whose life is made better through a mysterious benefactor. It starred Jack Pickford as "Pip."
A second version was made in 1947 that stars John Mills, Anthony Wager[?], Valerie Hobson, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles[?], Francis L. Sullivan[?], Finlay Currie[?], Martita Hunt[?] and Alec Guinness.
The movie was adapted by Anthony Havelock-Allan[?], David Lean, Cecil McGivern[?], Ronald Neame[?] and Kay Walsh[?], and directed by Lean.
It won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, and was nominated for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay.
See also: Great Expectations (book)
All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
|
Search Encyclopedia
|
Featured Article
|