Great Expectations
From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!
7.3(381) 1946-12-26 118 minDramaRomance
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.
ScreenplayKay Walsh
DirectorDavid Lean
ScreenplayRonald Neame
ScreenplayCecil McGivern
ScreenplayAnthony Havelock-Allan
ScreenplayDavid Lean
ProducerRonald Neame
Original Music ComposerWalter Goehr
Cast & characters
John Mills
as Pip
Valerie Hobson
as Estella
Tony Wager
as Young Pip
Jean Simmons
as Young Estella
Bernard Miles
as Joe Gargery
Francis L. Sullivan
as Mr. Jaggers
Finlay Currie
as Abel Magwitch
Martita Hunt
as Miss Havisham
Alec Guinness
as Herbert Pocket
Ivor Barnard
as Mr. Wemmick
Freda Jackson
as Mrs. Joe
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Eileen Erskine
as Biddy
George Hayes
as Convict
Hay Petrie
as Uncle Pumblechook
John Forrest
as The Pale Young Gentleman
Torin Thatcher
as Bentley Drummle
O.B. Clarence
as The Aged Parent
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John Burch
as Mr. Wopsle
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Richard George
as The Sergeant
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Grace Denbigh Russell
as Mrs. Wopsle
Everley Gregg
as Sarah Pocket
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Anne Holland
as Relation
Frank Atkinson
as Mike
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Gordon Begg
as Night Porter
