Great Expectations

Great Expectations (1934)

The World's Greatest Story! The Most Talked About Book! Lives for the First Time on the Screen!

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
1934-10-22
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Drama
Director
Stuart Walker

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Great Expectations

Great Expectations is a 1934 romantic drama film directed by Stuart Walker. Filmed with mostly American actors, it was the first sound version of the novel and was produced in Hollywood by Universal Studios. It stars Phillips Holmes as Pip, Jane Wyatt as Estella and Florence Reed as Miss Havisham. The film is an adaptation of the 1861 Charles Dickens novel of the same name.

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