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...London to learn to be a gentleman. He shares lodgings with a rickety, charming young man named Herbert Pocket (Alec Guinness),and learns, instead, to be a snob. As he helps his old criminal friend to escape arrest and rescues Miss Havisham's ward, the beautiful Estella (Valerie Hobson), from a psychological trap, the noble and weaker sides of Pip's nature so con-.tend that he emerges a true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 26, 1947 | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

Whenever it seems natural, Dickens' weird characters are lighted up with contemporary understanding: Pip's furiously cruel sister, for instance, becomes entirely plausible as a rampant neurotic. But the good old larger-than-life characters-Jaggers, Miss Havisham, and the glittering, cruel Estella-are presented with such a grandly bland air that they become believable, and unforgettable, by the force of their own peculiarity. The whole movie is a triumphant example of what can be achieved in film by tact, taste, and keen literary intelligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 26, 1947 | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...Cruikshank in the flesh). Besides the principal actors, all of whom are excellent, the most notable (and equally good) are Bernard Miles-another living Cruikshank-as the blacksmith, Anthony Wager as the boy Pip, O. B. Clarence as a deaf-&-daft gaffer, and 17-year-old Jean Simmons as Estella in her teens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 26, 1947 | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...ESTELLA A. FORRES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 13, 1942 | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...assert themselves in the face of such reverses, the Radical authorities last week executed at Valencia the No. 1 Spanish Fascist, Don Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, Marques d'Estella, son of the late Spanish Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera. Meanwhile, fighting at Madrid, the No. 1 Spanish Anarchist, famed General Buenaventura Durruti, was killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: 125 Days | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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