Great Expectations
1946 · Movie · 1h 58m · NR
DramaRomance
"From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!"
Overview
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.
Ratings
IMDb
7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes
100%
Metacritic
90/100
Key crew
- David LeanScreenplay
- Cecil McGivernScreenplay
- Ronald NeameScreenplay
- David LeanDirector
- Anthony Havelock-AllanScreenplay
- Kay WalshScreenplay
- Walter GoehrOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- John MillsPip
- Valerie HobsonEstella
- Tony WagerYoung Pip
- Jean SimmonsYoung Estella
- Bernard MilesJoe Gargery
- Francis L. SullivanMr. Jaggers
- Finlay CurrieAbel Magwitch
- Martita HuntMiss Havisham
- Alec GuinnessHerbert Pocket
- Ivor BarnardMr. Wemmick
- Freda JacksonMrs. Joe
- Eileen ErskineBiddy
Stills
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Themes
london, englandbased on novel or bookescaped convictorphanspinster19th centurybenefactor