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Great Expectations

Dir. David Lean·1946·1h 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.

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations (1946)

David Lean

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1h 58m
Cross-source blend ~85/100

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Countries

United Kingdom

Ratings

TMDB users

7.3/10

374 votes

IMDb

7.8/10

Users

Critics

100%Rotten Tomatoes

90Metacritic

Rating consensus

85/100 blend

Sources: TMDB · IMDb · Rotten Tomatoes · Metacritic

Warm reception overall — weighted ~85/100 across 4 rating sources. The listed meters mostly agree.

Cast

John Mills

Pip

Valerie Hobson

Estella

Tony Wager

Young Pip

Jean Simmons

Young Estella

Bernard Miles

Joe Gargery

Francis L. Sullivan

Mr. Jaggers

Finlay Currie

Abel Magwitch

Martita Hunt

Miss Havisham

Alec Guinness

Herbert Pocket

Ivor Barnard

Mr. Wemmick

Freda Jackson

Mrs. Joe

Eileen Erskine

Biddy

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