Great Expectations
Academy Award × 2
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.
Genres
Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Cast & Crew
DirectorDavid Lean
StarringJohn Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles
ComposerWalter Goehr
Great Expectations
Academy Award × 2
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.
Genres
Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Cast & Crew
DirectorDavid Lean
StarringJohn Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles
ComposerWalter Goehr