Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind to an escaped convict on the marshes. The convict is given his freedom in Australia, and he never forgets Pip. The other plot concerns a woman, who since her bridegroom failed at her wedding years before, has never seen the light of day. She lives in her bridal dress in a room that still contains the banquet table complete with wedding cake. Pip is summoned to talk to her once a week, and there he meets a beautiful girl, Estella, who is being trained by the old lady to revenge her on men. But Pip loves her right through...
...characters almost as magically compelling, in their peculiar way, as Shakespeare's. Yet both characters and story were plainly hard to bring to full life on the screen. The story is about young Pip (John Mills), a blacksmith's apprentice, who in childhood befriends an escaped convict, Magwitch (Finlay Currie), and a rich, decaying recluse, Miss Havisham (Martita Hunt).When Pip is still a very young man, he is snatched from poverty into Great Expectations. Miss Havisham's subtle attorney Jaggers (F. L. Sullivan) holds a fortune in trust for him, the gift of an anonymous benefactor...
...opening scenes, haunted with grimly exaggerated sounds of wind, in the desolate mid-marsh graveyard where Pip first meets the convict, are an achievement in romantic terror; the vast, dark,dust-ridden rooms in which Miss Havisham holds court in her rotting wedding dress are presented with the same belief-compelling recklessness...
What do they do on a rainy day in Britain? Last week, the cables of the Associated Press were humming with the news. They play hink pink. How? Well, one Briton says to another, "Hink pink, convict?" If the other is quick on the trigger, he answers smartly: "Bad lad!" "Hink pink, sculpture," might draw the reply: "Bust trust." For advanced players the game can run into two syllables. Samples: "Hinky pinky, Palestine." Answer: "Skittish British." Possible, but inadvisable except for postgraduates, is the three-syllable challenge: "Hinkitty pinkitty, no more Molotov." The answer would, of course, be: "Bevinly Heavenly...
...possible that, in the light of America's new policy of halting further Russian expansion, the Arab threat to raise Middle East havoc as an answer to Jewish immigration is no threat at all. But despite all speculation, UN failure to deal with the refugee problem at once will convict it of its greatest weakness to date-a disregard for humanity...