Out of the Shadows ; Ray Winstone and Gillian Anderson Explain What Drew Them to Dickens' Hard, Dark Morality Tale, Great Expectations

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Christmas without a big budget drama is not really Christmas, is it. And this year, the Beeb has pulled out all the stops with a lavish adaptation of Charles Dickens' story of orphan Pip - Great Expectations.

Just as Finlay Currie who played Magwitch in David Lean's 1946 critically-acclaimed version of Great Expectations left his indelible mark on the impressionable young Ray Winstone, the East- London born actor is now set to strike fear into the hearts of a new generation of youngsters when he emerges from the shadows of a foggy marshland to pounce on 11-year-old Pip in the reworking of the classic tale - an encounter which will change both lives forever.

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Out of the Shadows ; Ray Winstone and Gillian Anderson Explain What Drew Them to Dickens' Hard, Dark Morality Tale, Great Expectations

"I remember the film came out with Sir John Mills and Sir Alec Guinness and it kind of stuck in my mind, especially the sequence at the beginning in the graveyard - it scared me," says Winstone...

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