Great Expectations

Great Expectations

1946

Movie Information

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.

Release Date

December 26, 1946

Director

David Lean

Runtime

1h 58m

Cast

John MillsValerie HobsonTony WagerJean SimmonsBernard MilesFrancis L. SullivanFinlay CurrieMartita HuntAlec GuinnessIvor Barnard

Production

CineguildJ. Arthur Rank Organisation

Genres

DramaRomance

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