Great Expectations 1946

Name: Great Expectations
Released: 1946-12-26
Cast: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles

Synopsis:

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.

Directed by:	David Lean
Written by:	David Lean & Ronald Neame & Kay Walsh & Anthony Havelock-Allan & Cecil McGivern
Runtime:	118 minutes
Critics score:	100 / 100
Tagline:	From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!