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Great Expectations

From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!

1946 · NR · 1h 58m

Directed by David Lean

7.3

TMDB audience score
391 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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

  • Finlay Currie
    Abel Magwitch

  • Martita Hunt
    Miss Havisham

  • Alec Guinness
    Herbert Pocket

  • Ivor Barnard
    Mr. Wemmick

  • Freda Jackson
    Mrs. Joe

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    Biddy

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    Uncle Pumblechook

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    Bentley Drummle

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  • John Burch
    Mr. Wopsle