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London, England | Based On Novel Or Book
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Best Cinematography BlackandWhite | 1948 | Guy
Best Art DirectionSet Decoration BlackandWhite | 1948
Top Ten Films | 1947
Best Actor | 1948 | John
Best Film | 1947
Director Sir David Lean wanted his movie to have a feeling of heightened realism. Working closely in conjunction with art director John Bryan and cinematographer Guy Green, he employed several tricks, such as forced perspective, to achieve this effect. The famous opening shot in the graveyard, for instance, features a brooding church in the background, which, in reality, was only three meters (9'10") high.
John Mills, playing Pip from the age of 19 to 25, was 38 at the time of filming.
Director Sir David Lean was not a particularly well-read man and only became aware of the power of Charles Dickens' story when his wife Kay Walsh dragged him to a stage production of "Great Expectations" in 1939. Incidentally, playing Herbert Pocket in that production was a young Sir Alec Guinness, whom Lean subsequently cast in the same role in the movie. Aside from bit parts, it was Guinness's first major screen role, and was also the first of six movies he made with Lean. Martita Hunt was also in the stage production, playing Miss Havisham, a role she reprised in this movie.
Sir Alec Guinness admired the way Sir David Lean directed him, singling out a close-up in which he had to laugh out loud, and which he struggled to make look unmanufactured. Lean told him to forget about the whole thing, sat by his side, and made a little signal to the camera to start turning in the course of the conversation. He said something which made Guinness laugh and then said, "Cut." Guinness: "So he got this shot on a totally false premise, but thank God. I don't think I would have ever achieved it otherwise."
At the end, a shot of Valerie Hobson staring into a mirror was taking longer than anticipated and was suspended, it was lunchtime, and returned to in the afternoon. Approximately three months after this movie had been on exhibition, a moviegoer asked what was meant by a Chad being reflected in the mirror. It seems that a worker on the movie had drawn it on the wall during the break in filming, and it is dimly visible in the final scene behind Sir John Mills's shoulder as he says "I've never ceased to love you when there seemed no hope in my love."
"Pip: [narrating] In trying to become a gentleman, I had succeeded in becoming a snob."
"Mr. Jaggers: Take nothing on its looks, take everything on evidence. There is no better rule."
