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Great Expectations

Great Expectations

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 26, 1946

Runtime

1h 58m

Genres

Drama, Romance, History

User Score

73%

Original Title

Great Expectations

Production Companies

Cineguild, J. Arthur Rank Organisation

Director

David Lean

Description

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.