YMMV / Great Expectations (1946)

• Award Snub: Martita Hunt in a critically lauded and, to some, definitive portrayal of Miss Havisham went completely ignored at the Academy Awards.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • 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 Young Bess ?"
  • 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 Brides Of Dracula as the mother of a vampire who likewise lives in an ominous castle.
• Once Original, Now Common: 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.
• Questionable Casting: Valerie Hobson was considered to be miscast as the older Estella, with David Lean admitting that he would have preferred someone like Ingrid Bergman.
• Retroactive Recognition: Jean Simmons would achieve her Star-Making Role only two years later in Hamlet (1948).

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