
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
- Director
- David Lean
- Writer
- David Lean
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- N/A
Cast
Alec Guinness
Bernard Miles
Finlay Currie
Francis L. Sullivan
Ivor Barnard
Jean Simmons
John Mills
Martita Hunt
Tony Wager
Valerie Hobson
Keywords
19th century
based on novel or book
benefactor
escaped convict
london
england
orphan
spinster
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