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Great Expectations
1946Directed by David Lean1h 58m
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.
- Drama
- Romance
Cast
- 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
- 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
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