Great Expectations
1946 · 118 min
Directed by David Lean. Written by Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Kay Walsh. Starring John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager, Jean Simmons.
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.
Critics 100% · audiences 88% · streaming on fuboTV, HBO Max, Roku Channel · 5 Oscar nominations, 2 won