Word: havisham
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...black smith Joe, who is delightful. Henry Hall is up to his usual standard as the convict, although he seems to have stepped straight out of "Tobacco Road" forgetting to re-touch his make up. Florence Reed is a grisly bridge, growing yearly more grisly as the morbid Miss Havisham. Her twenty year old wedding cake is such a masterpiece of Hollywood cobwebbing that even Pip, when asked what it is, says "dunno Mum. . ." Phillips Holmes achieves an accurate and gloriously irritating cockney accent of such poignancy that no one is more relieved than the audience when he finally learns...
...condensed by Gladys Unger and directed by Stuart Walker, the task of preserving the vitality of Great Expectations rests principally on the cast. Most memorable contributions to a gallery of 19th Century human oddities are made by Henry Hull, as monkey-faced Magwitch; Florence Reed, as monstrous old Miss Havisham; Jane Wyatt as cold-hearted Estella. Good shot: Magwitch eating cold porkpie in a graveyard...