: One of the great translations of literature into film, David Leans, brings Charles Dickens masterpiece to robust onscreen life. Pip, Magwitch, Miss Havisham, and Estella populate Leans magnificent miniature, beautifully photographed by Guy Green and designed by John Bryan. : is famed theater director Peter Brooks daring translation of William Goldings brilliant novel. The story of 30 English schoolboys stranded on an uncharted island at the start of the "next" war, is a seminal film of the New American Cinema and a fascinating anti-Hollywood experiment in location filmmaking. As the cast relived Goldings frightening fable, Brook found the cinematic "evidence" of the authors terrifying thesis: there is a beast in us all. : "One of the best and most literate movies from the great days of horror," stars Leslie Banks as a big game hunter with a taste for the worlds most exotic preyhis houseguests, played by Fay Wray and Joel McCrea. Before making history with 1933s King Kong, filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack wowed audiences with their chilling adaptation of this Richard Connell short story. Criterion is proud to present the DVD premiere of in a new digital transfer. : Expressionistic noir photography suffuses David Leans with a nightmarish quality, fitting its bleak, industrial setting. In Dickens classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home.
