Great Expectations 1981  TV, 300 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Julian Amyes
Cast: Gerry Sundquist, Derek Francis, Joan Hickson, Patsy Kensit, Colin Jeavons, Stratford Johns, Phillip Joseph, Graham McGrath, Tim Munro, John Stratton, Christine Absalom, Sarah-Jane Varley
This offering from the BBC TV miniseries focuses on the life and times of humble Pip (Graham McGrath as young Pip and Gerry Sundquist as older Pip) who dreams of grandeur and finds when he grows up that an unknown benefactor (Stratford Johns) has bestowed a fortune on him enabling him to become a gentleman in the Victorian world of the social elite.
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The Keep 1983  R, 96 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Action / Horror / Thriller
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: Scott Glenn, Alberta Watson, Jurgen Prochnow, Robert Prosky, Ian McKellen, William Morgan Sheppard, Gabriel Byrne, Royston Tickner, Phillip Joseph, Michael Carter, John Vine, Jona Jones, Wolf Kahler, Rosalie Crutchley, Frederick Warder
Captain Woermann (Jurgen Prochnow) and his company of German soldiers arrive at an ancient castle in Romania, and one of the soldiers accidentally releases a demon from within the castle's walls. Soldiers are killed, and Nazi Major Kampffler (Gabriel Byrne) steps in to deal with the matter. He consults Jewish Doctor Theodore Cuza (Ian McKellen) about translating cryptic writings in the castle. Cuza forms a pact with the demon that could bring an end to mankind–unless a mysterious stranger, Glaeken Trismegestus (Scott Glenn), can stop them.
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