Great Expectations
(1946)
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.
Director
David Lean
Writers
Kay Walsh, Ronald Neame, Charles Dickens, Cecil McGivern, Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean
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John Mills
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Reviews
CinemaSerf
⭐ 8/10July 7, 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 f… read the rest.
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$400,000
Revenue
$420,000