Great Expectations

Great Expectations

1h 58m 1946 Drama, Romance United Kingdom
Budget: - Revenue: -

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.

Director

David Lean

Writer

David Lean, Cecil McGivern, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Kay Walsh