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Great Expectations

From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!

1946★ 7.3 · 3811h 58mDramaRomance

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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

Jean Simmons
as Young Estella

Alec Guinness
as Herbert Pocket

John Mills
as Pip

Torin Thatcher
as Bentley Drummle

Finlay Currie
as Abel Magwitch

Valerie Hobson
as Estella

Martita Hunt
as Miss Havisham

Bernard Miles
as Joe Gargery

Freda Jackson
as Mrs. Joe

Edie Martin
as Mrs. Whimple

Francis L. Sullivan
as Mr. Jaggers

Hay Petrie
as Uncle Pumblechook

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Release date: 1946-12-26

Budget: $400,000

Revenue: $420,000

Runtime: 1h 58m

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DramaRomance

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