Great Adaptations (Collector's Edition)

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