Great Adaptations - Criterion Collection (Great Expectations / Lord of the Flies / The Most Dangerous Game / Oliver Twist) | 
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Directors: David Lean, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Irving Pichel
Actors: John Mills, Tony Wager, Valerie Hobson, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles
Studio: Criterion
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 18989
Format: Anamorphic, Box Set, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Special Edition, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 4
Running Time: 387
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 1
MPN: 130
ISBN: 078002933X
UPC: 037429200223
EAN: 9780780029330
ASIN: B0002JELNQ
Theatrical Release Date: September 16, 1932
Release Date: September 7, 2004
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Description
Great Expectations: One of the great translations of literature into film, David Lean's, Great Expectations brings Charles Dickens' masterpiece to robust onscreen life. Pip, Magwitch, Miss Havisham, and Estella populate Lean's magnificent miniature, beautifully photographed by Guy Green and designed by John Bryan. Lord of the Flies: Lord of the Flies is famed theater director Peter Brook's daring translation of William Golding's brilliant novel. The story of 30 English schoolboys stranded on an uncharted island at the start of the "next" war, Lord of the Flies is a seminal film of the New American Cinema and a fascinating anti-Hollywood experiment in location filmmaking. As the cast relived Golding's frightening fable, Brook found the cinematic "evidence" of the author's terrifying thesis: there is a beast in us all. The Most Dangerous Game: "One of the best and most literate movies from the great days of horror," The Most Dangerous Game stars Leslie Banks as a big game hunter with a taste for the world's most exotic prey—his houseguests, played by Fay Wray and Joel McCrea. Before making history with 1933's King Kong, filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack wowed audiences with their chilling adaptation of this Richard Connell short story. Criterion is proud to present the DVD premiere of The Most Dangerous Game in a new digital transfer. Oliver Twist: Expressionistic noir photography suffuses David Lean's Oliver Twist with a nightmarish quality, fitting its bleak, industrial setting. In Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home.
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