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Great Expectations

7.3 118 mins Drama   Romance   1946
Cineguild   J. Arthur Rank Organisation  
Director(s): David Lean

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.

Casts of Great Expectations

John Mills

as Pip

Valerie Hobson

as Estella

Tony Wager

as Young Pip

Jean Simmons

as Young Estella

Bernard Miles

as Joe Gargery

Francis L. Sullivan

as Mr. Jaggers

Finlay Currie

as Abel Magwitch

Martita Hunt

as Miss Havisham

Alec Guinness

as Herbert Pocket

Ivor Barnard

as Mr. Wemmick

Freda Jackson

as Mrs. Joe

Eileen Erskine

as Biddy

George Hayes

as Convict

Hay Petrie

as Uncle Pumblechook

John Forrest

as The Pale Young Gentleman

Torin Thatcher

as Bentley Drummle

O.B. Clarence

as The Aged Parent

John Burch

as Mr. Wopsle

Richard George

as The Sergeant

Grace Denbigh Russell

as Mrs. Wopsle

Everley Gregg

as Sarah Pocket

Anne Holland

as Relation

Frank Atkinson

as Mike

Gordon Begg

as Night Porter

Edie Martin

as Mrs. Whimple

Walford Hyden

as The Dancing Master

Roy Arthur

as Galley Steersman

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