GREAT EXPECTATIONS

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• Release Year: 1981
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Violence and Victorian gentility meet in this powerful adaptation of one of Dickens’ greatest creations, his most piercing examinations of upward mobility.; ; While passing through the churchyard where his mother is buried, young Pip encounters a desperate convict, Magwitch. Soon afterwards Pip is summoned by the wealthy, eccentric recluse Miss Haversham to play with her beautiful but cruel ward Estella. With the two remarkable encounters begins his epic journey from boy to man. When Pip comes of age, Miss Haversham’s lawyer, Jaggers, informs him he has come into great wealth. But who exactly is the source of his mysterious new fortune? And perhaps it is not so easy - or desirable - to leave his humble past behind.
• Cast: Gerry Sundquist, Derek Francis, Jason Smart, Colin Jeavons, Joan Hickson, Linal Haft, Phillip Joseph, Stratford Johns, Peter Whitbread, John Stratton, Peter Benson, Christine Absalom, Melanie Hughes, Colin Mayes, Sarah-Jane Varley, Marjorie Yates, Paul Davies Prowles, Patsy Kensit, Mollie Maureen, Iain Ormsby-Knox, Graham McGrath, Janet Henfrey, Edmund Kente, Richard Addison, Judith Buckingham, Patrick Carter, Colin Fisher, Kevin Hart, John Rutland, Tony Sympson, Julian Amyes, James Andrew Hall
• Director: Julian Amyes
• Runtime: 5:51
• Company: BBC
• Media Format: Other