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Drama / Romance

Great Expectations

From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!

19461h 58mNR 7.3/ 10

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.

Cast

  • John MillsPip
  • Valerie HobsonEstella
  • Tony WagerYoung Pip
  • Jean SimmonsYoung Estella
  • Bernard MilesJoe Gargery
  • Francis L. SullivanMr. Jaggers
  • Finlay CurrieAbel Magwitch
  • Martita HuntMiss Havisham
  • Alec GuinnessHerbert Pocket
  • Ivor BarnardMr. Wemmick
  • Freda JacksonMrs. Joe
  • E
    Eileen ErskineBiddy
  • George HayesConvict
  • Hay PetrieUncle Pumblechook
  • John ForrestThe Pale Young Gentleman
  • Torin ThatcherBentley Drummle

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