Great Expectations

Great Expectations

From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!

NR 1946 · 118 min · ★ 7.3 · Drama, Romance

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Directed by David Lean · Written by David Lean

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John Mills Pip
Valerie Hobson Estella
Tony Wager Young Pip
Jean Simmons Young Estella
Bernard Miles Joe Gargery
Francis L. Sullivan Mr. Jaggers
Finlay Currie Abel Magwitch
Martita Hunt Miss Havisham
Alec Guinness Herbert Pocket
Ivor Barnard Mr. Wemmick
Freda Jackson Mrs. Joe
Eileen Erskine Biddy

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