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Great Expectations

From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!

  • Movie
  • 1946
  • NR
  • 1h 58m

Directed by David Lean

7.3

TMDB audience rating
7.3 out of 10 from 391 votes

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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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Cast and crew

  • John Mills

    John MillsPip

  • Valerie Hobson

    Valerie HobsonEstella

  • Tony Wager

    Tony WagerYoung Pip

  • Jean Simmons

    Jean SimmonsYoung Estella

  • Bernard Miles

    Bernard MilesJoe Gargery

  • Francis L. Sullivan

    Francis L. SullivanMr. Jaggers

  • Finlay Currie

    Finlay CurrieAbel Magwitch

  • Martita Hunt

    Martita HuntMiss Havisham

  • Alec Guinness

    Alec GuinnessHerbert Pocket

  • Ivor Barnard

    Ivor BarnardMr. Wemmick

  • Freda Jackson

    Freda JacksonMrs. Joe

  • Eileen ErskineBiddy

  • George Hayes

    George HayesConvict

  • Hay Petrie

    Hay PetrieUncle Pumblechook

  • John Forrest

    John ForrestThe Pale Young Gentleman

  • Torin Thatcher

    Torin ThatcherBentley Drummle

  • O.B. Clarence

    O.B. ClarenceThe Aged Parent

  • John BurchMr. Wopsle

Director
David Lean
Writer
David Lean, Cecil McGivern and Ronald Neame
Music
Walter Goehr
Cinematography
Guy Green