Great Expectations

Overview

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.

Details

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

George Hayes

Convict

Hay Petrie

Uncle Pumblechook

John Forrest

The Pale Young Gentleman

Torin Thatcher

Bentley Drummle

O.B. Clarence

The Aged Parent

John Burch

Mr. Wopsle

Richard George

The Sergeant

Grace Denbigh Russell

Mrs. Wopsle