Great Expectations
From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!
Directed by David Lean
Produced by Cineguild, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
A melancholic Victorian romance about ambition, class, and the emotional damage of betrayal, grounded in Dickensian social observation and period atmosphere.
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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