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.
Directed by David Lean
london, england
based on novel or book
escaped convict
orphan
spinster
19th century
benefactor
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Letterboxd
3.8 / 5
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Cast
John Mills
Pip
Valerie Hobson
Estella
Tony Wager
Young Pip
Jean Simmons
Young Estella
Bernard Miles
Joe Gargery
Francis L. Sullivan
Mr. Jaggers
Finlay Currie
Abel Magwitch
Martita Hunt
Miss Havisham
Alec Guinness
Herbert Pocket
Ivor Barnard
Mr. Wemmick
Freda Jackson
Mrs. Joe
George Hayes
Convict
Crew
David Lean
Director
David Lean
Screenplay
Ronald Neame
Screenplay
Kay Walsh
Screenplay
Guy Green
Director of Photography
Ronald Neame
Producer
Charles Dickens
Novel
George Pollock
Assistant Director
John Bryan
Production Design
Popular Reviews
67 reviews
Thegreatgibbsby
8.0★ · 04/29/26
A very classy (complimentary) adaptation of maybe the trashiest (complimentary) Dickens novel
A very classy (complimentary) adaptation of maybe the trashiest (complimentary) Dickens novel
kuciiika
6.0★ · 12/02/25
lucius malfoy looking mf was gayer then… well, anything really
lucius malfoy looking mf was gayer then… well, anything really
Caitlin Louise
6.0★ · 10/07/25
They really said fuck your ending Mr Dickens
They really said fuck your ending Mr Dickens
Erik
7.0★ · 08/20/25
Dickens me habría amado, de ahí no me bajan
Jamás existió un huérfano victoriano más caballeroso y honorable que el joven Pip
Dickens me habría amado, de ahí no me bajan
Jamás existió un huérfano victoriano más caballeroso y honorable que el joven Pip
Pavlo Huk
6.0★ · 03/26/25
had great expectations about this movie but at the end it was just okay
had great expectations about this movie but at the end it was just okay