Great Expectations

Great Expectations (1946)

From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!

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.

Date of release
1946-12-26
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (391)
Runtime
1h 58m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
David Lean

Casting

  • 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

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