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Great Expectations (1946)

Great Expectations (1946)

Drama Romance

From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!

Release Date: 1946, December 26
Directors: David Lean
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Cineguild, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
Cast: Alec Guinness, Finlay Currie, Howard Lang, Ivor Barnard, Jean Simmons, Torin Thatcher, John Mills, Bernard Miles, Frank Atkinson, Freda Jackson, Everley Gregg, Valerie Hobson

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book orphan 19th century london, england escaped convict spinster benefactor