MOVIE · 1946

Great Expectations

ActionAdventureDramaMysteryRomance118 min

After a frightening encounter with an escaped convict on the marshes, orphan Pip learns that an unknown benefactor intends to make him a gentleman. John Mills is the grown Pip, pulled from a rough childhood into the world of lawyers, money, and the decaying mansion of Miss Havisham, where his first attachment to Estella still lingers. In David Lean’s adaptation of Dickens, Martita Hunt’s Miss Havisham presides over a stopped-clock house and a ward raised to wound, turning Pip’s sudden good fortune into a mystery about class, desire, and who is really shaping his life.