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.Status: | Released (1946-12-26) |
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Awards: | Won 2 Oscars. 4 wins & 4 nominations total |
Screen: | Charles Dickens, David Lean, Ronald Neame |
Productions: | Cineguild, J. Arthur Rank Organisation |
Production Countries: | United Kingdom |
Spoken Languages: | English |
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- 11859: John Mills - Pip
- 2924: Valerie Hobson - Estella
- 1296266: Tony Wager - Young Pip
- 14500: Jean Simmons - Young Estella
- 8239: Bernard Miles - Joe Gargery
- 93900: Francis L. Sullivan - Mr. Jaggers
- 10027: Finlay Currie - Abel Magwitch
Crews
- 67615: Kay Walsh - Screenplay - Writing
- 12238: David Lean - Director - Directing
- 7501: Ronald Neame - Screenplay - Writing
- 3557: Charles Dickens - Novel - Writing
- 1153054: Cecil McGivern - Screenplay - Writing
- 12719: Anthony Havelock-Allan - Screenplay - Writing
- 12238: David Lean - Screenplay - Writing
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If I were ever to be given the chance to be a fly-on-the-wall at a conversation, then It'd have to be one with Charles Dickens and David Lean. How the latter managed to visualise and dramatise so expertly the finely honed characters of the former is astonishing. In this, possibly les ....
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