Great Expectations: The Untold Story

Great Expectations: The Untold Story
Directed by	Tim Burstall
Produced by	Tom Burstall Ray Alchin executive Antony I. Ginnane associate Sigrid Thornton
Written by	Tim Burstall
Based on	novel by Charles Dickens idea by Tom Burstall
Starring	Sigrid Thornton Anne-Louise Lambert John Stanton
Music by	George Dreyfus
Cinematography	Peter Hendry
Edited by	Tony Kavanaugh Lyn Solly John Pryce-Jones
Production company	Hemdale Film Corporation International Film Management
Distributed by	ABC (Australian TV) Filmpac (video)
Release dates	7 February 1987 (Australian TV)
Running time	102 mins (film version) 3 x 2 hours (TV version)
Country	Australia
Language	English
Budget	A $5,970,077^[1]

Great Expectations: The Untold Story is a 1987 Australian film which was made as a feature film and a mini series.^[2]

It is based on an account of what happened to Magwitch from the novel Great Expectations when he was in Australia.^[3]

Plot

Magwitch is sentenced to life in New South Wales. He is put on a chain gang run by Solomon Tooth and eventually amasses a fortune.

Cast

John Stanton as Magwitch
Sigrid Thornton as Bridget
Robert Coleby as Compeyson
Anne Louise Lambert as Estella
Noel Ferrier as Jaggers
Ron Haddrick as Lankerton
Danny Simmons as Young Pip
- Todd Boyce as Older Pip

Production

The film was the idea of Tom Burstall, who made it with his director father Tim. Tim Burstall says in the writing of it he was influenced by a book by Price Waring, Tales of the Old Convict System.^[4] It was filmed in Sydney from 9 March to 11 July 1986.^[2]

References

↑ "Australian Productions Top $175 million", Cinema Papers, March 1986 p64
1 2 Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p70, 201-202
↑ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p187-188
↑ Interview with Tim Burstall, 30 March 1998 accessed 14 October 2012

External links

Films produced by Antony I. Ginnane

1970s	Sympathy in Summer (1971) (also director, writer) Fantasm (1976) Fantasm Comes Again (1977) Blue Fire Lady (1977) Patrick (1978) Thirst (1979)

1980s	Harlequin (1980) Prisoners (1981) Race for the Yankee Zephyr (1981) The Survivor (1981) Dead Kids (1981) Turkey Shoot (1982) Second Time Lucky (1984) Great Expectations: The Untold Story (1986) (mini series) Mesmerized (1986) Killer Instinct (1987) The Tale of Ruby Rose (1987) Dark Age (1987) Initiation (1987) High Tide (1987) Slate, Wyn & Me (1987) The Lighthorsemen (1987) The Time Guardian (1988) Savage Justice (1988) Incident at Raven's Gate (1988) Boundaries of the Heart (1988) The Everlasting Secret Family (1988) Emma: Queen of the South Seas (1988) (mini-series) The Dreaming (1988) Grievous Bodily Harm (1988) Mull (1989) Minnamurra (1989) The Siege of Firebase Gloria (1989) Driving Force (1989) Demonstone (1989)

1990s	Fatal Sky (1990) A Case of Honor (1991) Bonjour Timothy (1995) No Contest (1995) Screamers (1995) The Whole of the Moon (1997) Men with Guns (1997) The Truth About Juliet (1998) Reluctant Angel (1998) Captive (1998) Black Light (1999) Sally Marshall Is Not an Alien (1999)

2000s	Reaper (2000) Torrent (2001) The Hit (2001) (TV movie) Lawless: Beyond Justice (2001) (TV movie) Lawless: Dead Evidence (2001) (TV movie) Sweet Revenge (2002) Blind Heat (2002) The Risen (2003) (TV movie) The Big Red (2005) (documentary) Look @ Me (2006) Ten Dead Men (2008) Screamers: The Hunting (2009)

2010s	Arctic Blast (2010) Metal Tornado (2011) (TV movie) Last Dance (2012) Patrick (2013) Turkey Shoot (2014)

The Films of Tim Burstall

Feature Films	2000 Weeks (1969) Stork (1971) Libido - The Child (1973) Alvin Purple (1973) Petersen (1974) Alvin Rides Again (1974) (producer only) End Play (1975) Eliza Fraser (1976) High Rolling (1977) (producer only) The Last of the Knucklemen (1979) Attack Force Z (1982) Duet for Four (1982) The Naked Country (1985) Kangaroo (1987)

Short Films	The Prize (1961)

TV	Sebastian the Fox (1961) Sculpture Australia '69 (1969) Getting Back to Nothing (1970) A Descant for Gossips (1983) Great Expectations: The Untold Story (1987) Water Rats: Dead in the Water (1996)

Charles Dickens's Great Expectations

Characters	Philip "Pip" Pirrip Estella Havisham Compeyson Miss Havisham Abel Magwitch John Wemmick

Adaptations	1917 film 1934 film 1946 film 1955 Hong Kong film adaptation 1974 TV film 1981 miniseries 1991 miniseries 1998 film 1999 TV film South Park retelling (2000) 2011 miniseries 2012 film 2016 Bollywood adaptation

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