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Great Expectations

Lists: Drama, Romance, Best Picture nominee 1940 to 1949

Brief Synopsis: "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."

Overall Ranking: - (Rank from 1946: # 0)


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  • John Mills (Pip)
  • Valerie Hobson (Estella)
  • Tony Wager (Young Pip)
  • Jean Simmons (Young Estella)
  • Bernard Miles (Joe Gargery)
  • Francis L. Sullivan (Mr. Jaggers)
  • Finlay Currie (Abel Magwitch)
  • Martita Hunt (Miss Havisham)
  • Alec Guinness (Herbert Pocket)
  • Ivor Barnard (Mr. Wemmick)
  • Freda Jackson (Mrs. Joe)
  • Eileen Erskine (Biddy)
  • George Hayes (Convict)
  • Hay Petrie (Uncle Pumblechook)
  • John Forrest (The Pale Young Gentleman)
  • Torin Thatcher (Bentley Drummle)
  • O.B. Clarence (The Aged Parent)
  • John Burch (Mr. Wopsle)
  • Richard George (The Sergeant)
  • Grace Denbigh Russell (Mrs. Wopsle)
  • Everley Gregg (Sarah Pocket)
  • Anne Holland (Relation)
  • Frank Atkinson (Mike)
  • Gordon Begg (Night Porter)
  • Edie Martin (Mrs. Whimple)
  • Walford Hyden (The Dancing Master)
  • Roy Arthur (Galley Steersman)