''Great Expectations: The Untold Story'' is a 1987 Australian film which was made as a feature film and a mini series.Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p70, 201-202 It is based on an account of what happened to Magwitch from the novel ''Great Expectations'' when he was in Australia.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p187-188

Plot

Magwitch is sentenced to life in New South Wales. He is put on a chain gang run by Solomon Tooth and eventually amasses a fortune.

Cast

* John Stanton as Magwitch *

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as Bridget *

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as Jaggers *

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as Lankerton *

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as Young Pip *

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as Older Pip *

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as Courtney *

Annie Byron Annie Byron is an AFI Award-winning Australian film, stage, and television actress best known for ''Wolf Creek 2'', ''Fran'', ''Muriel's Wedding'', and ''Doing Time for Patsy Cline''. Early life Byron was born in Inverell, Australia. She ...

as Mrs. Joe Gargery

Production

The film was the idea of Tom Burstall, who made it with his director father Tim. Tim Burstall says in the writing of it he was influenced by a book by Price Waring, ''Tales of the Old Convict System''.Interview with Tim Burstall, 30 March 1998
Retrieved 14 October 2012 It was filmed in Sydney from 9 March to 11 July 1986.

References

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