Great Expectations
A blacksmith's boy startled by an escaped convict in a marsh churchyard is later summoned to play at a decaying mansion where a jilted recluse has raised a beautiful ward to break men's hearts, and an unknown benefactor makes him a gentleman. Lean's compression of Dickens — the graveyard opening above all — set the standard every subsequent adaptation answers to.
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- adapts ↑ Great Expectations
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