Great Expectations
A blacksmith's apprentice helps a convict on the marshes and is later summoned to a decayed mansion where an old woman in a wedding dress has stopped all the clocks. When an anonymous benefactor makes him a gentleman in London, he takes the money and grows ashamed of the people who raised him. An orphan learning what worth and gratitude really cost.
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- influenced by ↑ The Woman in White
- ↓ Sunset Boulevard
- ↓ Jack Maggs
- ↓ Great Expectations
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