Page 2 Advertisements Column 5

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22463, 18 October 1947, Page 2

mm H A Amalgamated Theatres Ltd. (Throughout Now Zealand) “Great Expectations” is a richlysatisfying version of a famous novel. More than ten years have passed since Hollywood delighted the world with Sir Hugh Walpole’s adaptation of “David Copperfield," one of the finest films of the ’thirties. It can be fairly said that “Great Expectations” rivals “David Copperfield” in the inspired presentation of a procession of famous characters and excels it in the authenticity of its settings, “Great Expectations” is a good picture, good in Dickensians’ eyes and very good to those whose knowledge of Dickens is vague or non-existent. Writing of “Great Expectations,” Dickens said: “It so opens out before me that I can see the whole of a serial revolving on it. in a most singular and comic manner.” No one in our age who has read the book can have failed to realise that it has many of the properties of a film script. The account of Pip’s meeting witth the convict Magwitch in the foggy, wind-swept churchyard, of Pip’s desperate theft of food from his shrewish sister and his terrifying journey back is one of Dickens’ most graphic passages and. filmed against the backgrounds of the Romney marshlands, it becomes as fine and satisfying a piece of “pure cinema” as England or Hollywood has ever given us. Further powerful scenes include Pip’s first visit to Satis House, the death by fire of the mad Miss Havisham, the return of Magwitch and the desperate race to board the packet on the lower reaches of the Thames, with the cold pale sky. the splash of water and the cry of gulls heightening rather than breaking the tension of the scene. There are gloriously comic passages, too, like the fight with the “pale young gentleman” at Miss Havisham’s, an episode which is effectively recalled at a later stage of the story, the scenes with the masterful lawyer, Jaggers, and the encounter with Wemmick’s Aged Parent. The film is excellently cast. John Mills, England’s soundest film acttpr. is a sincere and convincing Pip, Francis Sullivan plays the thundering Jaggers to the life and the acting of Anthony Wager, as Pip the boy, and Jean Simmons as Estella the girl, cannot be faulted, Dickens’ characters have been established in the minds of readers not only by the words he wrote, but by the inspired drawings of his illustrators. Cruickshank and “Phiz.” There is a remarkable echo of these in the appearance of Alex Guinness as Herbert Pocket, of Ivor Barnard as Wemmick, of O. B. Clarence as the Aged Parent, and of Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham. Whether “Great Expectations” would be appreciated by children of primary school age is doubtful, but it is confidently recommended to all others. It will probably prove the finest picture of 1947 and is certainly a further indication of the capacity of the British cinema. “Great Expectations” will Screen for the first time In Gisborne Next Friday. 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