Great Expectations (1946)

NR12/26/1946Drama, Romance1h 58m
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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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    John Mills

    Pip

  2. Cast 1

    Valerie Hobson

    Estella

  3. Cast 1

    Tony Wager

    Young Pip

  4. Cast 1

    Jean Simmons

    Young Estella

  5. Cast 1

    Bernard Miles

    Joe Gargery

  6. Cast 1

    Francis L. Sullivan

    Mr. Jaggers

  7. Cast 1

    Finlay Currie

    Abel Magwitch

  8. Cast 1

    Martita Hunt

    Miss Havisham

  9. Cast 1

    Alec Guinness

    Herbert Pocket

If I were ever to be given the chance to be a fly-on-the-wall at a conversation, then It'd have to be one with Charles Dickens and David Lean. How the latter managed to visualise and dramatise so expertly the finely honed characters of the former is astonishing. In this, possibly less well known story - "Pip" (Tony Wager) encounters an escaped convict in an eery graveyard when he goes to tend his late mother's grave.. Despite his fear, he helps feed the old man and free him from his chains. As he ages, he is summoned by a local, wealthy, spinster "Miss Havisham" (a wonderfully imperious Martit...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$400,000.00

Revenue $420,000.00

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