Great Expectations (1946)
Movie
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.
Directed By : David Lean
Genres : Drama, Romance
Status : Released
Released : Dec 26, 1946
Tagline : From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!
Length : 118 minutes
Cast
- John Mills
- Valerie Hobson
- Tony Wager
- Jean Simmons
- Bernard Miles
- Francis L. Sullivan
- Finlay Currie
- Martita Hunt
- Alec Guinness
- Ivor Barnard
- Freda Jackson
- Eileen Erskine
- George Hayes
- Hay Petrie
- John Forrest
- Torin Thatcher
- O.B. Clarence
- John Burch
- Richard George
- Grace Denbigh Russell
- Everley Gregg
- Anne Holland
- Frank Atkinson
- Gordon Begg
- Edie Martin
- Walford Hyden
- Roy Arthur
- Howard Lang
Crew
- Director : David Lean
- Novel : Charles Dickens
- Screenplay : David Lean
- Screenplay : Ronald Neame
- Screenplay : Anthony Havelock-Allan
- Screenplay : Kay Walsh
- Screenplay : Cecil McGivern
- Executive Producer : Anthony Havelock-Allan
- Producer : Ronald Neame
- Original Music Composer : Walter Goehr
- Director of Photography : Guy Green
- Editor : Jack Harris
- Casting : Pat MacDonnell
- Casting : Adele Raymond
- Casting : Maude Spector
- Art Direction : Wilfred Shingleton
- Costume Design : Sophie Devine
- Makeup Artist : George Blackler
- Makeup Artist : Ernest Gasser
- Assistant Director : George Pollock
- Assistant Costume Designer : Margaret Furse
- Sound Recordist : Stanley Lambourne
- Sound Recordist : Gordon K. McCallum
- Sound Editor : Winston Ryder
- Camera Operator : Robert Huke
- Continuity : Maggie Unsworth
- Choreographer : Suria Magito
- Conductor : Walter Goehr
- Production Manager : Norman Spencer
- Production Design : John Bryan
- Set Decoration : Erik Blakemore
- Boom Operator : George Paternoster
- Focus Puller : Jim Body