Great Expectations (1946)

  • NR
  • 12/26/1946 (US)
  • Drama, Romance
  • 1h 58m

From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!

Overview

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.

Kay Walsh

Screenplay

David Lean

Director, Screenplay

Ronald Neame

Screenplay

Charles Dickens

Novel

Cecil McGivern

Screenplay

Anthony Havelock-Allan

Screenplay

Cast

John Mills's headshot

John Mills

Pip
Valerie Hobson's headshot

Valerie Hobson

Estella
Tony Wager's headshot

Tony Wager

Young Pip
Jean Simmons's headshot

Jean Simmons

Young Estella
Bernard Miles's headshot

Bernard Miles

Joe Gargery
Francis L. Sullivan's headshot

Francis L. Sullivan

Mr. Jaggers
Finlay Currie's headshot

Finlay Currie

Abel Magwitch
Martita Hunt's headshot

Martita Hunt

Miss Havisham

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