Great Expectations
- Drama
- Romance
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.
- Directed by
- David Lean
- Written by
- Kay Walsh, Ronald Neame, Cecil McGivern, Anthony Havelock-Allan
- Based on
- Charles Dickens
Cast
- John Mills
- Valerie Hobson
- Tony Wager
- Jean Simmons
- Bernard Miles
- Francis L. Sullivan
- Finlay Currie
- Martita Hunt
Alec Guinness- Ivor Barnard
- Freda Jackson
- Eileen Erskine
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