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

Abel Magwitch

Phillips Holmes

Pip

Jane Wyatt

Estella

Florence Reed

Miss Havisham

Alan Hale

Joe Gargery

Rafaela Ottiano

Mrs. Joe

George Barraud

Compeyson

Douglas Wood

Wopsle

Forrester Harvey

Uncle Pumblechook

George P. Breakston

Young Pip

Harry Cording

Orlick

Eily Malyon

Sarah Pocket

Jackie Searl

Young Herbert

Robert Adair

Sergeant

Reginald Barlow

Judge

Walter Brennan

Prisoner on Ship

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