Great Expectations: The Untold Story

Great Expectations The Untold Story is a 1987 Australian film which was made as a feature film and a mini series.

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.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. It was filmed in Sydney fromMarch toJuly 1986. ........

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