Movie: Great Expectations

Year: 1946

Also Known As: Grandes Esperanças

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Genres: Drama | Romance

Cast: John Mills, Tony Wager, Valerie Hobson, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles, Francis L. Sullivan, Finlay Currie, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness, Ivor Barnard…

Rated: 8.1/10 from 11,476 votes on IMDb

Tagline: Great Thrills! Great Romance! Great Suspense! Great Adventure!

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Plot: Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife 'Mrs. Joe'. When the boy finds two hidden escaped galley convicts, he obeys under -probably unnecessary- threat of a horrible death to bring the criminals food he must steal at peril of more caning from the battle-ax. Just when Pip fears to get it really good while they have guests, a soldier comes for Joe who takes Pip along as assistant to work on the chains of escaped galley-convicts, who are soon caught. The better-natured one takes the blame for the stolen food. Later Pip is invited to became the playmate of Estelle, the equally arrogant adoptive daughter of gloomy, filthy rich Miss Havisham at her estate, who actually has 'permission' to break the kind kid's heart; being the only pretty girl he ever saw, she wins his heart forever, even after a mysterious benefactor pays trough a lawyer for his education and a rich allowance…

Release Date: 26 December 1946 (UK)

Runtime: 118

Directors: David Lean

Writers: Charles Dickens, David Lean

Countries: UK

Budget: N/A

Languages: English

Location: Denham Studios, Denham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

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