Great Expectations (1974)

  • NR
  • 11/22/1974 (US)
  • Drama, Romance, TV Movie
  • 1h 40m

Overview

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.

Sherman Yellen

Screenplay

Charles Dickens

Novel

Joseph Hardy

Director

Cast

Michael York's headshot

Michael York

Pip
Sarah Miles's headshot

Sarah Miles

Estella
James Mason's headshot

James Mason

Magwitch
Margaret Leighton's headshot

Margaret Leighton

Miss Havisham
Robert Morley's headshot

Robert Morley

Uncle Pumblechook
Anthony Quayle's headshot

Anthony Quayle

Jaggers
Joss Ackland's headshot

Joss Ackland

Joe Gargery
Rachel Roberts's headshot

Rachel Roberts

Mrs. Gargery

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