Word: ranked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Photographic chairman Alfred M. Weisberg '47 repeated his request that all faculty members of professorial rank visit the photographer on the second floor of the Union some time before Thursday...
Great Expectations (Rank; Universal-International) is one more proof that the movies can make a fine, thoroughly intelligent translation of a literary classic. In Henry V, Laurence Olivier and his British associates showed for the first time how beautifully Shakespeare can be brought to the screen. In Great Expectations, Britain's Director David Lean (rhymes with keen) and associates have done just as handsomely by Charles Dickens...
Great Expectations is one more tribute to J. Arthur Rank's talent as a movie mogul-a talent which appears to consist, most importantly, in furnishing gifted people with the wherewithal and then leaving them severely alone (TIME, May 19). The film (the first English movie to play Manhattan's Music Hall since Clouds Oner Europe, in the cloudy year 1939) will probably fulfill its sponsors' great expectations-both financially and critically. Certainly most Dickensians will love it. And countless people who can't take Dickens are likely to hurry back to that author with...
...their first independent production (under J. Arthur Rank), they stuck to their highly successful formula; their adaptation of Coward's one-acter, Brief Encounter, was one of the top critical successes of the year - in both Britain and the U.S. They decided to make Great Expectations for two reasons: 1) it was about time to try something besides Noel Coward's work, and 2) Lean had read through the complete works of Dickens in search of movie material...
They have proved pretty conclusively that they are fine picture makers - with or without Coward. Without a flop to their discredit so far, the trio has Rank's fondest blessings. Cineguild's next job: Oliver Twist...