Alec Guinness as Herbert Pocket; Jean Simmons as Young Estella; John Mills as Pip, as a young man; Finlay Currie as Abel Magwitch; Torin Thatcher as Bentley Drummle; Bernard Miles as Joseph 'Joe' Gargery; George Hayes as Compeyson; Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham; Ivor Barnard as Mr. Wemmick; Valerie Hobson as Estella, as an adult; Freda Jackson as Mrs. Joe Gargery; Hay Petrie as Uncle Pumblychook; Francis L. Sullivan as Mr. Jaggers; O.B. Clarence as The Aged Parent; Richard George as The Sergeant
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Guy Green
Language
English
Plot
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.