Great Expectations (1946)

From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!

• Drama
• Romance

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.

Rating

7.3 / 10 (391 votes)

Release date

December 26, 1946

Runtime

1h 58m

Language

English

Director

David Lean

Status

Released