Great Expectations (1934)
October 22, 1934Release Date
Great Expectations (1934)
October 22, 1934Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Henry Hull
Abel Magwitch
Phillips Holmes
Pip
Jane Wyatt
Estella
Florence Reed
Miss Havisham
Alan Hale
Joe Gargery
Stuart Walker
Director
Rafaela Ottiano
Mrs. Joe
Charles Dickens
Writer
George Barraud
Compeyson
Gladys Unger
Writer
Francis L. Sullivan
Jaggers
Stanley Bergerman
Producer
Douglas Wood
Wopsle
Forrester Harvey
Uncle Pumblechook
Edward Ward
Composer
George P. Breakston
Young Pip
George Robinson
Cinematographer
Harry Cording
Orlick
Eily Malyon
Sarah Pocket
Anne Howard
Young Estella
Walter Armitage
Herbert Pocket
Jackie Searl
Young Herbert
Philip Dakin
Bentley Drummle
Robert Adair
Sergeant
Reginald Barlow
Judge
Walter Brennan
Prisoner on Ship
Herbert Evans
Waiter
Virginia Hammond
Molly
Thomas R. Mills
Prison Doctor
Hayden Stevenson
Detective
Lloyd Whitlock
Major
Carl Laemmle Jr.
Executive Producer
Maurice Pivar
Supervising Editor
Albert S. D'Agostino
Art Direction
Edward Curtiss
Editor
Vera West
Costume Design
Otto Lederer
Assistant Makeup Artist
Carl Laemmle
Presenter
Russell F. Schoengarth
Assistant Editor
Jack Pierce
Makeup Artist
Phil Karlson
Assistant Director
Clifford Vaughan
Orchestrator
John P. Fulton
Special Effects
Margaret Donovan
Hairstylist
Maury Gertsman
Assistant Camera
Harry Mancke
Assistant Director
William Ely
Assistant Makeup Artist
Gilbert Kurland
Sound Supervisor
Media.
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Great Expectations is a 1934 adaptation of the 1861 Charles Dickens novel of the same name. Filmed with mostly American actors, it was the first sound version of the novel and was produced in Hollywood by Universal Studios and directed by Stuart Walker. It stars Phillips Holmes as Pip, Jane Wyatt as Estella and Florence Reed as Miss Havisham.Critics consider this 1934 version far inferior to the classic 1946 version, made in England and directed by David Lean. A notable link between the two movies is that Francis L. Sullivan played the role of Jaggers in both.
This film differs somewhat from the novel in making Miss Havisham more eccentric than insane. Unlike the novel, she does not wear her bridal veil constantly, does not seem to have really engineered all of Pip's misfortunes with Estella, and dies offscreen of natural causes rather than in a fire.