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Great Expectations

From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!

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.

19461h 58mNRDrama, Romance

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About Great Expectations

Directors
David Lean
Cast
John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles, Francis L. Sullivan
Genres
Drama, Romance
Content rating
NR
Original language
English
Production countries
United Kingdom
Status
Released

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