Great Expectations (1946 film)

Great Expectations is a 1946 British film directed by David Lean, based on the novel by Charles Dickens and starring John Mills, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Jean Simmons, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness and Valerie Hobson. It won two Academy Awards Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography and was nominated for three others Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay.

Orphan Phillip Pip Pirrip Anthony Wager lives with his shrewish older sister and her kindhearted blacksmith husband, Joe Gargery Bernard Miles. One day, Pip runs into an escaped convict, Abel Magwitch Finlay Currie, who intimidates the boy into getting him some food and a file for his chains. Magwitch is caught when he attacks a hated fellow escapee, and is taken back to the prison ship.Miss Havisham Martita Hunt, an eccentric rich spinster, arranges to have Pip come to her mansion regularly to provide her with company and to play with a cruel but beautiful teenage girl, Estella Jean Simmons. Estella mocks Pips coarse manners at every opportunity, but Pip quickly falls in love with her. The visits come to an end when Pip turnsand begins his apprenticeship as a blacksmith. Estella also leaves, for France, to learn to become a lady. ........

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