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Great Expectations

(1946)

December 26, 1946 1h 58m
73%
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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.

David Lean

Director

Top Billed Cast

JM

John Mills

Pip

VH

Valerie Hobson

Estella

TW

Tony Wager

Young Pip

JS

Jean Simmons

Young Estella

BM

Bernard Miles

Joe Gargery

FLS

Francis L. Sullivan

Mr. Jaggers

FC

Finlay Currie

Abel Magwitch

MH

Martita Hunt

Miss Havisham

AG

Alec Guinness

Herbert Pocket

IB

Ivor Barnard

Mr. Wemmick

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