Great Expectations( 1946)

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From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!

Overview

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.

Top Billed 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
Freda Jackson
Mrs. Joe
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
John Burch
Mr. Wopsle
Richard George
The Sergeant
Grace Denbigh Russell
Mrs. Wopsle
Everley Gregg
Sarah Pocket
Anne Holland
Relation
Frank Atkinson
Mike
Gordon Begg
Night Porter
Edie Martin
Mrs. Whimple
Walford Hyden
The Dancing Master
Roy Arthur
Galley Steersman

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Thu Jul 07 2022

If I were ever to be given the chance to be a fly-on-the-wall at a conversation, then It'd have to be one with Charles Dickens and David Lean. How the latter managed to visualise and dramatise so expertly the finely honed characters of the former is astonishing. In this, possibly less well known story - "Pip" (Tony Wager) encounters an escaped convict in an eery graveyard when he goes to tend his late mother's grave.. Despite his fear, he helps feed the old man and free him from his chains. As he ages, he is summoned by a local, wealthy, spinster "Miss Havisham" (a wonderfully imperious Martita...