Great Expectations

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.

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  John Mills

  Pip
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  Valerie Hobson

  Estella
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  Tony Wager

  Young Pip
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  Jean Simmons

  Young Estella
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  Bernard Miles

  Joe Gargery
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  Finlay Currie

  Abel Magwitch
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  Martita Hunt

  Miss Havisham
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  Alec Guinness

  Herbert Pocket
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  Ivor Barnard

  Mr. Wemmick
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  Freda Jackson

  Mrs. Joe