Great Expectations
movie
From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!
Released December 26, 1946
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.
Cast
John Mills
as
Pip
Valerie Hobson
as
Estella
Tony Wager
as
Young Pip
Jean Simmons
as
Young Estella
Bernard Miles
as
Joe Gargery
Francis L. Sullivan
as
Mr. Jaggers
Finlay Currie
as
Abel Magwitch
Martita Hunt
as
Miss Havisham
Alec Guinness
as
Herbert Pocket
Ivor Barnard
as
Mr. Wemmick
Freda Jackson
as
Mrs. Joe
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Eileen Erskine
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Biddy
Crew
David Lean
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Screenplay
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Cecil McGivern
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Screenplay
Ronald Neame
as
Screenplay
Charles Dickens
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Novel
David Lean
as
Director
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Anthony Havelock-Allan
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Screenplay
Kay Walsh
as
Screenplay
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Walter Goehr
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Original Music Composer
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Maude Spector
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Casting
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Pat MacDonnell
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Casting
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Jack Harris
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Editor
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Adele Raymond
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Casting