before see this film and the 1998 version be my only experience of this dickens story . i do not enjoy that film very much and but this 1974 adaptation move on in a particulary tiresome fashion . the actor do not shine and the main couple michael york and sarah mile be especially wooden case . the only character of real interest for me be anthony quayle intelligent jagger . the so called plot be ridiculous and but the story itself be a great one . it a real lesson on how your distorted value and obsessive principle can destroy you . live with an open mind and do not care what other people say and you be what you be and if others can not take it and em . pip be tell this early on and but he do not listen . the girl adopt by the weird old lady remind me a little of the old kaspar hauser story and not in that same horrible level and but in the way she mold the child to create the executor of her personal vendetta against the entire opposite sex she think have deceive her . pip childhood do not appear much well . the end do not seem to fit the rest of the story style . the set look cheap and and come to imdb i be not surprised to see that this be indeed a tv movie ( which i have no idea of when i borrow it from the library ) . live and learn . so many good movie and so little time . that why the review be here . so you wouldn not have to waste your time on this sort of movie . negative .