Great Expectations
- Released on
- Runtime
- 118 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- John Mills
- Valerie Hobson
- Tony Wager
- Jean Simmons
- Bernard Miles
- Francis L. Sullivan
- Finlay Currie
- Martita Hunt
- Alec Guinness
- Ivor Barnard
- Freda Jackson
- Eileen Erskine
- George Hayes
- Hay Petrie
- John Forrest
- Torin Thatcher
- O.B. Clarence
- John Burch
- Richard George
- Grace Denbigh Russell
- Everley Gregg
- Anne Holland
- Frank Atkinson
- Gordon Begg
- Edie Martin
- Walford Hyden
- Roy Arthur
Director
- David Lean
Producers
- Ronald Neame
Screenwriter
- Kay Walsh
- Ronald Neame
- Cecil McGivern
- Anthony Havelock-Allan
- David Lean
