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Great Expectations
Film / 1974

Great Expectations

Directed by Joseph Hardy
DramaRomanceTV movie

★ 6.4/10Audience rating

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

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

Michael YorkPip Sarah MilesEstella James MasonMagwitch Margaret LeightonMiss Havisham Robert MorleyUncle Pumblechook Anthony QuayleJaggers Joss AcklandJoe Gargery Rachel RobertsMrs. Gargery Heather SearsBiddy Andrew RayHerbert Pocket Simon Gipps-KentYoung Pip James FaulknerBentley Drummle
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Sam KyddScarred Convict Peter BullWemmick John CliveMr. Wopsle Patsy SmartMrs. Wopsle Dudley SuttonCriminal Celia HewittMolly Richard BeaumontYoung Pocket

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