Great Expectations
“From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!”
Director
David Lean
Screenplay / Story
Kay Walsh
Music Composer
Walter Goehr
Cinematography
Guy Green
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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Production Budget
$400,000
Worldwide Box Office
$420,000
Original Language
EN
Production Country
United Kingdom
Content Rating
PG-13
Release Status
Released
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Top Cast
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
