Great Expectations

Great Expectations

118 mins | Drama, Romance, History | Dec. 26, 1946

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.

Great Expectations

118 mins | Drama, Romance, History | Dec. 26, 1946

Great Expectations
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.
IMDb rating 7.8
Producers Cineguild, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
Original title Great Expectations
Directors Maggie Unsworth, David Lean, George Pollock
Writers Cecil McGivern, Kay Walsh, Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Ronald Neame, Charles Dickens

Cast

John Mills

as Pip

Valerie Hobson

as Estella

Tony Wager

as Young Pip

Jean Simmons

as Young Estella

Bernard Miles

as Joe Gargery

Francis L. Sullivan

as Mr. Jaggers

Finlay Currie

as Abel Magwitch

Martita Hunt

as Miss Havisham

Alec Guinness

as Herbert Pocket

Ivor Barnard

as Mr. Wemmick

Freda Jackson

as Mrs. Joe

Eileen Erskine

as Biddy

George Hayes

as Convict

Hay Petrie

as Uncle Pumblechook

John Forrest

as The Pale Young Gentleman

Torin Thatcher

as Bentley Drummle

O.B. Clarence

as The Aged Parent

John Burch

as Mr. Wopsle

Richard George

as The Sergeant

Grace Denbigh Russell

as Mrs. Wopsle

Everley Gregg

as Sarah Pocket

Anne Holland

as Relation

Frank Atkinson

as Mike

Gordon Begg

as Night Porter

Edie Martin

as Mrs. Whimple

Walford Hyden

as The Dancing Master

Roy Arthur

as Galley Steersman