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.

John Mills
as Pip

Valerie Hobson
as Estella

Tony Wager
as Young Pip

Jean Simmons
as Young Estella

Bernard Miles
as Joe Gargery

Francis L. Sullivan
as Mr. Jaggers

Finlay Currie
as Abel Magwitch

Martita Hunt
as Miss Havisham

Alec Guinness
as Herbert Pocket

Ivor Barnard
as Mr. Wemmick
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If I were ever to be given the chance to be a fly-on-the-wall at a conversation, then It'd have to be one with Charles Dickens and David Lean. How the latter managed to visualise and dramatise so expertly the finely honed characters of the former is astonishing. In this, possibly less well known sto...