Abel Magwitch, like Pip, follows his own rags to riches story and has his own 'Great Expectations'. He has quite a dramatic change in personality between the earlier and later parts of the book.

Similarly to Pip, Abel Magwitch also follows a path to prosperity and has a similar story to "Great Expectations". Throughout the book, he undergoes quite a dramatic change in personality. Eventually, ...

For Winstone, the film wasn’t a horror flick or even an action movie; it was the 1946 edition of Great Expectations ... The brutish actor was given the role of Abel Magwitch, one of the story’s most ...