Great Expectations (1946)1h58
Drama · Romance
Director David Lean (7.5 avg)
Also directed Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago, and 13 more
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.
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Cast
John Mills
Valerie Hobson
Tony Wager
Jean Simmons
Bernard Miles
Francis L. Sullivan
Finlay Currie
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