Great Expectations (1974 film)

This article is about the 1974 film. For other uses, see Great Expectations (disambiguation).
Great Expectations
Directed byJoseph Hardy
Screenplay bySherman Yellen
Based onGreat Expectations
1861 novel
by Charles Dickens
Produced byRobert Fryer
StarringMichael York
Sarah Miles
CinematographyFreddie Young
Music byMaurice Jarre
Production
companies
Transcontinental Film Productions,[1] ITC[2]
Release date
  • November 22, 1974 (1974-11-22)
Running time
124 minutes
CountriesUnited States
United Kingdom
LanguagesEnglish and Germanic

Great Expectations is a 1974 film made for television based on the Charles Dickens 1861 novel of the same name. It was directed by Joseph Hardy, with screenwriter Sherman Yellen and music by Maurice Jarre, starring Michael York as Pip, Simon Gipps-Kent as Young Pip and Sarah Miles as Estella. The production, for Transcontinental Films and ITC, was made for US television and released to cinemas in the UK. It broke with tradition by having the same actress (the thirty-three-year-old Sarah Miles) play both the younger and older Estella. The film was shot by Freddie Young. It was filmed in Eastmancolor and it was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival in 1975.[3]

  1. ^ "Great Expectations (1974)". BFI Film Forever. Archived from the original on September 12, 2017. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  2. ^ McFarlane, Brian (2008). Screen Adaptations, Great Expectations: The Relationship Between Text and Film. London: Methuen/A & C Black. p. 96. ISBN 9780713679090.
  3. ^ "9th Moscow International Film Festival (1975)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2013-01-05.