Great Expectations
Great Expectations
Release: 1946-12-26
·Runtime: 118m
·★ 7.3
Drama
Romance
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Cineguild
J. Arthur Rank Organisation
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Ivor Barnard
as Mr. Wemmick
George Hayes
as Convict
Frank Atkinson
as Mike
John Mills
as Pip
Valerie Hobson
as Estella
Tony Wager
as Young Pip
Alec Guinness
as Herbert Pocket
Freda Jackson
as Mrs. Joe
Edie Martin
as Mrs. Whimple
Finlay Currie
as Abel Magwitch
Hay Petrie
as Uncle Pumblechook
John Forrest
as The Pale Young Gentleman
Torin Thatcher
as Bentley Drummle
Martita Hunt
as Miss Havisham
O.B. Clarence
as The Aged Parent
Everley Gregg
as Sarah Pocket
Howard Lang
as Man sitting next to Pip at Magwitch's Trial (uncredited)
Jean Simmons
as Young Estella
Bernard Miles
as Joe Gargery
Francis L. Sullivan
as Mr. Jaggers
