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Screenplay
  
Paul West

Cast
  
Jack Pickford

Country
  
United States

6.5/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Story by
  
Charles Dickens

Duration
  

Great Expectations (1917 film) movie poster
Language
  
Silent English intertitles

Director
  
Robert G. Vignola Paul West

Release date
  
January 8, 1917 (1917-01-08)

Based on
  
Great Expectations  by Charles Dickens

Writer
  
Charles Dickens (novel), Doty Hobart, Paul West

Directors
  
Robert G. Vignola, Paul West

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Great Expectations is a lost 1917 silent drama film directed by Robert G. Vignola and Paul West, based on the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Jack Pickford stars as Pip and Louise Huff as Estella.

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Plot

A young boy, Pip, runs into an escaped convict at his local churchyard. Pip does favours for Magwitch (the convict), such as bringing him food etc. until Magwitch is eventually arrested and deported to Australia.

Cast

  • Jack Pickford as Pip
  • Louise Huff as Estella
  • Frank Losee as Abel Magwitch, alias Provis
  • William Black as Joe Gargery
  • Marcia Harris as Mrs. Gargery
  • Grace Barton as Miss Havisham
  • Herbert Prior as Mr. Jaggers

    • References

    Great Expectations (1917 film) Wikipedia
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    Great Expectations (1917 film) IMDb