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.

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  • Release Date: 1946-12-26
  • Runtime: 1h 58min
  • Director: David Lean

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    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

    • Eileen Erskine

      Biddy

    • George Hayes

      Convict

    • Hay Petrie

      Uncle Pumblechook

    • John Forrest

      The Pale Young Gentleman

    • Torin Thatcher

      Bentley Drummle

    • O.B. Clarence

      The Aged Parent

    • John Burch

      Mr. Wopsle

    • Richard George

      The Sergeant

    • Grace Denbigh Russell

      Mrs. Wopsle

    • Everley Gregg

      Sarah Pocket

    • Anne Holland

      Relation

    • Frank Atkinson

      Mike

    • Gordon Begg

      Night Porter

    • Edie Martin

      Mrs. Whimple

    • Walford Hyden

      The Dancing Master

    • Roy Arthur

      Galley Steersman

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