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Great Expectations

From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!

★ 7.3 1946 118 min NR DramaRomance

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 in its release era

Released in 1946, Great Expectations sits inside the 1940s catalog. Explore its creators, studio connections, genres and nearby releases from the same period.

Release
1946-12-26
Rating
NR
TMDB score
7.3/10
Original language
EN
Status
Released
Production
United Kingdom
Studio
Cineguild, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
Topicslondon, englandbased on novel or bookescaped convictorphanspinster19th centurybenefactor

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