GREAT ADAPTATIONS COLL

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• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: The Criterion Collection, a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films, presents four classic literary adaptations together in a single box set:; ; GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1946) David Lean brings Charles Dickens’s masterpiece to life, realizing the timeless characters of Pip, Magwitch, Miss Havisham, and Estella in a beautifully photographed triumph of page-to-screen adaptation.; ; LORD OF THE FLIES (1963) Theater director Peter Brook’s translation of William Golding’s brilliant novel is a fascinating anti-Hollywood experiment in location filmmaking and an all-too-real embodiment of the author’s terrifying thesis.; ; THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (1932) Adapted from Richard Connell's chilling story of a big-game hunter with a taste for the world's most exotic prey, Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel's suspense classic is one of the best and most literate movies from the great days of horror.; ; OLIVER TWIST (1948) Alec Guinness is the quintessential Fagin in David Lean's powerful, gorgeously rendered telling of Dickens' tale of an orphan's search for a true home in cruel nineteenth-century London.; ; The Criterion Collection is proud to present Great Adaptations, a delight for admirers of both literature and cinema.
• Runtime: 6:27
• Media Format: Movie