The Criterion Collection is proud to present Great Adaptations.



Great Expectations David Lean brings Charles Dickens's masterpiece to life, realising the timeless characters of Pip, Magwitch, Miss Havisham, and Estella in a beautifully photographed and designed triumph of page-to-screen realization



Lord of the Flies Theatre director Peter Brook's daring translation of William Golding's brilliant novel is a fascinating anti-Hollywood experiment in location filmmaking and an all-too-real embodiment of the author's terrifying thesis.



The Most Dangerous Game Before making history with 1933's King Kong, filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack adapted Richard Connell's chilling story of a big-game hunter with a taste for the world's most exotic prey, resulting in one of the best and most literate movies from the great days of horror.



Oliver Twist Alec Guinness is the quintessential Fagin in David Lean's powerful, gorgeously rendered telling of Dickens tale of an orphan's search for a true home in cruel 19th-century London