Movie
Great Expectations
From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!
19461h 58m★ 7.3DramaRomance
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.
Director
- David Lean
Writers
- Kay Walsh
- Ronald Neame
- Cecil McGivern
- Anthony Havelock-Allan
- David Lean
Producers
- Anthony Havelock-Allan · Executive Producer
- Ronald Neame
Where to watch
Region: US · via JustWatch / TMDB
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Top 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
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Eileen Erskine
Biddy
