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Great Expectations

1946 · 118 min · Drama, Romance · ★ 7.3

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

  • John Mills
    Pip
  • Valerie Hobson
    Estella
  • Tony Wager
    Young Pip
  • Jean Simmons
    Young Estella
  • Bernard Miles
    Joe Gargery
  • Francis L. Sullivan
    Mr. Jaggers

Crew

  • Director · David Lean
  • Screenplay · David Lean
  • Screenplay · Ronald Neame
  • Screenplay · Anthony Havelock-Allan
  • Screenplay · Kay Walsh
  • Screenplay · Cecil McGivern
  • Producer · Ronald Neame

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