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Great Expectations: The Untold Story is a film of genre Drama directed by Tim Burstall with Sigrid Thornton

Great Expectations: The Untold Story (1987)

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


It is based on an account of what happened to Magwitch from the novel Great Expectations when he was in Australia.
^ "Australian Productions Top $175 million", Cinema Papers, March 1986 p64

^ 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

Synopsis

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.

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