I can remember resting on my elbows in front of the television in my grandparents’ drawing-room when I was still quite young, and feeling keenly the terror of the poor, timorous Pip in the first minutes of this film, who is jumped on by an escaped convict while he lays flowers on his parents’ grave. [...]
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Trailer of the Week: Great Expectations
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