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Great Expectations

Great Expectations
★ 7.3/10•1946•1h 58m•NR•Drama•Romance

From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!

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.

David Lean · Screenplay

Cecil McGivern · Screenplay

Ronald Neame · Screenplay

David Lean · Director

StatusReleased
Runtime1h 58m
LanguageEN
Release DateDec 26, 1946
Budget$400,000
Revenue$420,000

Actors

John Mills

John Mills

Pip

Valerie Hobson

Valerie Hobson

Estella

Tony Wager

Tony Wager

Young Pip

Jean Simmons

Jean Simmons

Young Estella

Bernard Miles

Bernard Miles

Joe Gargery

Francis L. Sullivan

Francis L. Sullivan

Mr. Jaggers

Finlay Currie

Finlay Currie

Abel Magwitch

Martita Hunt

Martita Hunt

Miss Havisham

Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness

Herbert Pocket

Ivor Barnard

Ivor Barnard

Mr. Wemmick

Freda Jackson

Freda Jackson

Mrs. Joe

Eileen Erskine

Biddy

George Hayes

George Hayes

Convict

Hay Petrie

Hay Petrie

Uncle Pumblechook

John Forrest

John Forrest

The Pale Young Gentleman

Torin Thatcher

Torin Thatcher

Bentley Drummle

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