Great Expectations (1946)
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.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | en |
| Popularity | 3.8501 |
Directed By
David Lean
Crew
David Lean
Charles Dickens
David Lean
Ronald Neame
Anthony Havelock-Allan
Kay Walsh
Cecil McGivern
Anthony Havelock-Allan
Ronald Neame
Walter Goehr
Guy Green
Jack Harris
Pat MacDonnell
Adele Raymond
Maude Spector
Wilfred Shingleton
Sophie Devine
George Blackler
Ernest Gasser
George Pollock
Margaret Furse
Stanley Lambourne
Gordon K. McCallum
Winston Ryder
Robert Huke
Maggie Unsworth
Suria Magito
Walter Goehr
Norman Spencer
John Bryan
Erik Blakemore
George Paternoster
Jim Body
TOP 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
Howard Lang
Man sitting next to Pip at Magwitch's Trial (uncredited)
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