Great Expectations
Great Expectations

Great Expectations

1946-12-26| 118 min

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.

Genres

DramaRomance

Cast

John Mills

John Mills

Valerie Hobson

Valerie Hobson

Tony Wager

Tony Wager

Jean Simmons

Jean Simmons

Bernard Miles

Bernard Miles

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