Forrest Gump
Comedy · Drama
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Film / 1946
Geheimnisvolle Erbschaft
Directed by
David Lean
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.
The story
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
John MillsPip
Valerie HobsonEstella
Tony WagerYoung Pip
Jean SimmonsYoung Estella
Bernard MilesJoe Gargery
Francis L. SullivanMr. Jaggers
Finlay CurrieAbel Magwitch
Martita HuntMiss Havisham
Alec GuinnessHerbert Pocket
Ivor BarnardMr. Wemmick
Freda JacksonMrs. Joe
Eileen ErskineBiddy
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George HayesConvict
Hay PetrieUncle Pumblechook
John ForrestThe Pale Young Gentleman
Torin ThatcherBentley Drummle
O.B. ClarenceThe Aged Parent
John BurchMr. Wopsle
Richard GeorgeThe Sergeant
Grace Denbigh RussellMrs. Wopsle
Everley GreggSarah Pocket
Anne HollandRelation
Frank AtkinsonMike
Gordon BeggNight Porter
Edie MartinMrs. Whimple
Walford HydenThe Dancing Master
Roy ArthurGalley Steersman
Howard LangMan sitting next to Pip at Magwitch's Trial (uncredited)
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