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Great Expectations (1946)
Directed by David Lean
“From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!”
Drama, Romance · 1h 58m
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.
Cast
John Mills
Valerie Hobson
Tony Wager
Jean Simmons
Bernard Miles
Francis L. Sullivan
Finlay Currie
Martita Hunt
Alec Guinness
Ivor Barnard
Freda Jackson
Crew
- Director
- David Lean
- Screenplay
- David Lean, Cecil McGivern, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Kay Walsh
- Novel
- Charles Dickens
- Director of Photography
- Guy Green
- Original Music Composer
- Walter Goehr
- Editor
- Jack Harris
- Producer
- Ronald Neame
Details
- Release date
- 1946-12-26
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Cineguild, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
- Budget
- $400,000
- Box office
- $420,000