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Great Expectations

1946 • 1h58m Drama, Romance

Rating

7.3/10

Popularity

2

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.

Details

Director

David Lean

Screenplay

David Lean

Ronald Neame

Anthony Havelock-Allan

Cast

John Mills

Valerie Hobson

Tony Wager

Release date

12/26/1946

Status

Released

Budget

$400,000

Revenue

$420,000

Origin country

GB

Vote count

363