Great Expectations (1946)
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.
Directed by: David Lean
Top Billed Cast: Frank Atkinson, Jean Simmons, Eileen Erskine
Runtime: 118 minutes
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John Mills
Pip
Valerie Hobson
Estella
Tony Wager
Young Pip
Jean Simmons
Young Estella
Bernard Miles
Joe Gargery
Francis L. Sullivan
Mr. Jaggers
Finlay Currie
Abel Magwitch
Martita Hunt
Miss Havisham
Alec Guinness
Herbert Pocket
Ivor Barnard
Mr. Wemmick
Freda Jackson
Mrs. Joe
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Eileen Erskine
Biddy
George Hayes
Convict
Hay Petrie
Uncle Pumblechook
John Forrest
The Pale Young Gentleman
Torin Thatcher
Bentley Drummle
O.B. Clarence
The Aged Parent
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John Burch
Mr. Wopsle
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Richard George
The Sergeant
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Grace Denbigh Russell
Mrs. Wopsle
Everley Gregg
Sarah Pocket
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Anne Holland
Relation
Frank Atkinson
Mike
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Gordon Begg
Night Porter
Edie Martin
Mrs. Whimple
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Walford Hyden
The Dancing Master
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Roy Arthur
Galley Steersman
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Howard Lang
Man sitting next to Pip at Magwitch's Trial (uncredited)
