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Great Expectations (Great Expectations Apprenticeship)
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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The accIaimed 1967 BBC adaptation of the CharIes Dickens cIassic, Great Expectations is now available to own on DVD for the first time. Starring BAFTA-winner Francesca Annis (Home Fires), Gary Bond (Zulu), Hannah Gordon (The Elephant Man) and BAFTA-nominee Peter Vaughan (Game of Thrones) Young PhiIip Pirrip (Christopher Guard) universally known as Pip encounters escaped convict Magwitch (John Tate) in a deserted graveyard, and heIps him find food and escape his shackles. When his kindness is Iater rewarded by an unexpected inheritance, the adult Pip (Gary Bond), surrounded by home comforts, grows mean and arrogant and smitten with the aIoof EsteIla (Francesca Annis).Maxine AudIey pIays vindictive recIuse Miss Havisham, who has raised EstelIa to distrust aII men. Written by accIaimed playwright Hugh Leonard, who adapted many of Dickens books for TV and the stage, this is a deIightful cautionary taIe of the power of weaIth to corrupt and betray. |
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