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36: 263: 462:'s interpretation of the jilted Miss Havisham: "there is a potent sense of the perverse pleasure she takes in watching Estella humiliate Pip, and, during a later visit, of real cruelty in her telling him, 'You've lost her'. Leighton injected 'a necessary bitterness into these scenes 420:
reported that the film would contain "only a traditional score by Maurice Jarre" after the idea of a film musical version had been dropped. In 1995, Michael York said "we found when we started putting it together the songs interrupted the narrative flow of the piece".
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that, "he need not have worried: no one would have spoken of them in the same breath. It's not just Lean's film with which it would not stand comparison but with several superior TV mini-series too". McFarlane expressed some admiration however for
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thought director Hardy and screenwriter Yellen had reduced "one of Dickens' most subtle and complex novels to an insipid seasonal confection". Gordon Gow, writing in
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thought it odd to have "Pip divided between two players, his beloved Estella should be played by one actress the whole way through".
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reported in 1974, however, that "in an unprecedented move, the bulk of the score for Sir
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as Estella. The production, for Transcontinental Films and
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This article is about the 1974 film. For other uses, see
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Great Expectations (disambiguation)

Joseph Hardy
Sherman Yellen
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Michael York
Sarah Miles
Freddie Young
Maurice Jarre
ITC
Charles Dickens
novel of the same name
Joseph Hardy
Sherman Yellen
Maurice Jarre
Michael York
Pip
Simon Gipps-Kent
Sarah Miles
ITC
Freddie Young
Eastmancolor
9th Moscow International Film Festival

adding to it
Michael York
Sarah Miles
James Mason
Margaret Leighton

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