Great Expectations poster
Director David Lean
Screenplay David Lean, Kay Walsh, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Cecil McGivern

Great Expectations

Tagline: From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!

Release Date: 1946-12-26

Duration: 118 minutes

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.

Casting

  • Jean Simmons
    Young Estella
  • John Mills
    Pip
  • Alec Guinness
    Herbert Pocket
  • Finlay Currie
    Abel Magwitch
  • Bernard Miles
    Joe Gargery
  • John Forrest
    The Pale Young Gentleman
  • Tony Wager
    Young Pip
  • Martita Hunt
    Miss Havisham
  • Valerie Hobson
    Estella
  • Francis L. Sullivan
    Mr. Jaggers