![]() Our focus does not shift from the confines of the churchyard, where Pip is visiting his parent's grave. While Lean's version offers the viewer a clear sense of space and perspective with the famous opening shots of the desolate, windswept marshes, in this 1974 remake we find that the bleak vista implied by Pip's opening voice-over narration is never realised visually. Hardy's vision seems altogether more constricted than, for example, David Lean's adaptation ( 1946). It is an interesting example of a director's televisual sensibility ( Hardy has worked predominantly on TV dramas and adaptations) struggling to come to terms with the grandiose scale implied by the source narrative. Joseph Hardy's version of Dickens' classic was originally made for American TV - initially as a musical, although all the songs were removed prior to release. The story of a young man whose moral progress is shaped by two crucial childhood experiences: the traumatic encounter with Magwitch, an escaped convict, and his association with the eccentric Miss Havisham and her protegé Estella. ![]()
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