Great Expectations

1946

English

7.8

♡ 15

100%

88%

Adventure

based on novel or book

David Lean Director

Milo O'Shea as Condemned criminal

Valerie Hobson as Estella

Jean Simmons as Young Estella

Tony Wager as Young Pip

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.