Great Expectations (1934)

7.0/10 • 100 min • Drama

Overview

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

Henry Hull

Phillips Holmes

Jane Wyatt

Florence Reed

Alan Hale

Rafaela Ottiano

George Barraud

Francis L. Sullivan

Douglas Wood

Forrester Harvey

Uncle Pumblechook

George P. Breakston

Harry Cording

Eily Malyon

Jackie Searl

Robert Adair

Reginald Barlow

Walter Brennan

Prisoner on Ship

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