Great Expectations (1946)

From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!

118 min★ 7.8 · 28,685 votes

• Adventure
• Drama
• Mystery

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.

Release date

December 26, 1946

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Budget

$400,000

Box office

$420,000