Great Expectations-John Mills

[ynnafymmi]

Just watched it for the millionith time.Surely the best film ever made.What larks,pip,what larks.

[Bazile]

Read the book at school

Remind me - is the convict Estella's father ?

[grumpy01]

Francis L Sullivan was a formidable Mr Jaggers.

[Prudie]

Also read it at school along with Oliver Twist and Tale of Two Cities. Put me off Dickens for life. Full of heartbreak and cruelty.

[burlyshirley]

Baz - Yes ...

[Smowball]

Ooh thanks Barsel x

[ynnafymmi]

@17.59.Watched on an old cd i found at the back of a drawer.It will be on again at Xmas time(guaranteed).Barsel please,please watch this film.Any other films you have seen will fade off into the distance.Best film ever made.

[ynnafymmi]

Yes,Baz..and Jaggers maid was her mother.

[ynnafymmi]

@18.24.No its not Prudie.Watch it when it comes on at Xmas time and then get back to me.Simply put-this is the best film ever made.

[douglas9401]

No alternative views allowed eh? Smashin'.

[hellywelly4]

I remember watching it when I was about 7. The fire absolutely terrified me. I’ve never watched it since.

[jno]

I'd rate it #2 behind the Care Bears Movie, douglas.

[jim360]

Absolutely ruins the ending of the book though. They aren't supposed to have a happy ending.

I've only seen it once, but apart from that very last scene it was brilliant.

[ynnafymmi]

The first 10 minutes of the film terrifies me,helly.The old graveyard,the trees howling and waving.Pip scared as hell runs back to home and safety,suddenly out of nowhere Magwitch grabs him....I think masters of the screen such as Tarantino have said that the first ten minutes of Great Expectations are the best opening scenes ever filmed.

[Cloverjo]

I think Dickens’s writing puts me off. I’ve had to read three for school and university. Can’t bear them. Husband is a big Dickens fan and has DVDs that I try to ignore whenever he plays them

[Cloverjo]

I love Oliver! though

[jno]

jim, I believe Dickens provided the alternative happy ending himself (at the suggestion of Leigh Hunt, as I recall). Just as Bernard Shaw provided the alternative ending to Pygmalion where Eliza and Higgins get together.

[jno]

I love Oliver! too, Cloverjo. Great songs, wonderful cast, amazing sets of Victorian London too.

[ynnafymmi]

Not only that jno,but there was characters back in the 1800s such as Miss Haversham who had been jilted at the altar.Ebenezer Scrooge was based on a character up in Edinburgh with the name of Scroggie who was renowned for his miserliness but just prior to his death realised that all his money-grubbing would avail him nought after his death and started splurging his money around right,left and centre.

[CrapAtCryptics]

Trivia Bernard Miles son was an F1 driver for about 12 races.

[jim360]

The ending in the film is, I believe, different from either of Dickens's versions. In any case, I'm an originalist: Pip and Estella at best deserve each other because they are both not very nice people, rather than deserve a happy ending :P