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Spotlight on GREAT EXPECTATIONS with Grady Hendrix

Spotlight on GREAT EXPECTATIONS with Grady Hendrix • 5m 25s

In the latest installment of our Spotlight series, critic and novelist Grady Hendrix finds an unlikely favorite horror movie in David Lean’s adaptation of a Charles Dickens classic.

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  • Great Expectations
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    Great Expectations

    Great Expectations

    Directed by David Lean • 1946 • United Kingdom
    Starring John Mills, Finlay Currie, Martita Hunt

    One of the great translations of literature into film, David Lean’s GREAT EXPECTATIONS brings Charles Dickens’s masterpiece to robust on-screen life. Pip, Magwitch, Miss Havisham, and Estella populate...

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