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Great Expectations

1917

A somber, stately silent melodrama of thwarted love and social climbing, heavy with gothic atmosphere and emotional restraint.

Directed by: Paul West, Robert G. Vignola
Genres: Drama
Starring: Jack Pickford, Louise Huff, Frank Losee

Overview: Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

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Directed by: Paul West, Robert G. Vignola
Genres: Drama
Starring: Jack Pickford, Louise Huff, Frank Losee

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: class
identity
love
betrayal
madness
Places: countryside
big city
single country house
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	2
Humour	2
Realism	6
Romance	5
Tension	4
Darkness	6
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Paul West, Robert G. Vignola
Written by: Doty Hobart, Paul West
Starring: Jack Pickford, Louise Huff, Frank Losee, William Black, Marcia Harris, Grace Barton, Herbert Prior
Country: United States of America
Languages: No Language

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