Overview - Great Expectations

Overview

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.

Cast

• Name: John Mills

  Character: Pip

  Popularity: 2.1081

  

• Name: Valerie Hobson

  Character: Estella

  Popularity: 1.1747

  

• Name: Tony Wager

  Character: Young Pip

  Popularity: 0.8539

  

• Name: Jean Simmons

  Character: Young Estella

  Popularity: 2.6172

  

• Name: Bernard Miles

  Character: Joe Gargery

  Popularity: 1.2423

  

• Name: Francis L. Sullivan

  Character: Mr. Jaggers

  Popularity: 0.7998

  

• Name: Finlay Currie

  Character: Abel Magwitch

  Popularity: 1.2033

  

• Name: Martita Hunt

  Character: Miss Havisham

  Popularity: 1.1198