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* OnceOriginalNowOverdone: Modern viewers watching David Lean's adaptation of the Dickens classic might roll their eyes upon seeing Magwitch pop out of the frame at Pip in the graveyard like a cheap horror movie jack-in-the-box, genuinely startling though it is - because they won't know that this was the first time that ever happened in a movie.
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* OnceOriginalNowOverdone: OnceOriginalNowCommon: Modern viewers watching David Lean's adaptation of the Dickens classic might roll their eyes upon seeing Magwitch pop out of the frame at Pip in the graveyard like a cheap horror movie jack-in-the-box, genuinely startling though it is - because they won't know that this was the first time that ever happened in a movie.
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* OnceOriginalNowOverdone: Modern viewers watching David Lean's adaptation of the Dickens classic might roll their eyes upon seeing Magwitch pop out of the frame at Pip in the graveyard like a cheap horror movie jack-in-the-box, genuinely startling though it is - because they won't know that this was the first time that ever happened in a movie.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Modern viewers watching David Lean's adaptation of the Dickens classic might roll their eyes upon seeing Magwitch pop out of the frame at Pip in the graveyard like a cheap horror movie jack-in-the-box, genuinely startling though it is - because they won't know that this was the first time that ever happened in a movie.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Estella's first scene (where she's played by Creator/JeanSimmons) has her saying "so this is young Pip?" - to which he should have responded "is this Film/YoungBess ?"
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* HilariousInHindsight: AwardSnub: Martita Hunt in a critically lauded and, to some, definitive portrayal of Miss Havisham went completely ignored at the Academy Awards.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** Estella's first scene (where she's played by Creator/JeanSimmons) has her saying "so this is young Pip?" - to which he should have responded "is this Film/YoungBess?"?"
** Miss Havisham refers to herself as "a woman who hasn't seen the sun since you were born", making her sound rather like a vampire. Martita Hunt would later star in ''Film/BridesOfDracula'' as the mother of a vampire who likewise lives in an ominous castle.
* QuestionableCasting: Valerie Hobson was considered to be miscast as the older Estella, with David Lean admitting that he would have preferred someone like Creator/IngridBergman.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Jean Simmons would achieve her StarMakingRole only two years later in ''Film/{{Hamlet 1948}}''.
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Modern viewers watching David Lean's adaptation of the Dickens classic might roll their eyes upon seeing Magwitch pop out of the frame at Pip in the graveyard like a cheap horror movie jack-in-the-box, genuinely startling though it is - because they won't know that this was the first time that ever happened in a movie.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** Estella's first scene (where she's played by Creator/JeanSimmons) has her saying "so this is young Pip?" - to which he should have responded "is this Film/YoungBess
** Miss Havisham refers to herself as "a woman who hasn't seen the sun since you were born", making her sound rather like a vampire. Martita Hunt would later star in ''Film/BridesOfDracula'' as the mother of a vampire who likewise lives in an ominous castle.
* QuestionableCasting: Valerie Hobson was considered to be miscast as the older Estella, with David Lean admitting that he would have preferred someone like Creator/IngridBergman.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Jean Simmons would achieve her StarMakingRole only two years later in ''Film/{{Hamlet 1948}}''.
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Modern viewers watching David Lean's adaptation of the Dickens classic might roll their eyes upon seeing Magwitch pop out of the frame at Pip in the graveyard like a cheap horror movie jack-in-the-box, genuinely startling though it is - because they won't know that this was the first time that ever happened in a movie.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Estella's first scene (where she's played by Jean Simmons) has her saying "so this is young Pip?" - to which he should have responded "is this Film/YoungBess ?"
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* HilariousInHindsight: Estella's first scene (where she's played by Jean Simmons) Creator/JeanSimmons) has her saying "so this is young Pip?" - to which he should have responded "is this Film/YoungBess ?"
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* HilariousInHindsight: Estella's first scene (where she's played by Jean Simmons) has her saying "so this is young Pip?" - to which he should have responded "is this Film/YoungBess ?"
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