1946 · 118 min

Great Expectations

Name: Great Expectations
Released: 1946-12-26
Cast: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles

Drama · Romance

Plot

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.

Cast

John Mills

Pip

Valerie Hobson

Estella

Tony Wager

Young Pip

Jean Simmons

Young Estella

Bernard Miles

Joe Gargery

Francis L. Sullivan

Mr. Jaggers

Finlay Currie

Abel Magwitch

Martita Hunt

Miss Havisham

Alec Guinness

Herbert Pocket

Ivor Barnard

Mr. Wemmick

Freda Jackson

Mrs. Joe

Eileen Erskine

Biddy

Crew

David Lean

Screenplay

Cecil McGivern

Screenplay

Ronald Neame

Screenplay

David Lean

Director

Anthony Havelock-Allan

Screenplay

Kay Walsh

Screenplay

Walter Goehr

Original Music Composer

Guy Green

Director of Photography

Ronald Neame

Producer

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