Great Expectations (1946)
Actors:
Valerie Hobson (actress),
Martita Hunt (actress),
Everley Gregg (actress),
Torin Thatcher (actor),
Francis L. Sullivan (actor),
Finlay Currie (actor),
Gordon Begg (actor),
Hay Petrie (actor),
Alec Guinness (actor),
Frank Atkinson (actor),
O.B. Clarence (actor),
Ivor Barnard (actor),
Bernard Miles (actor),
John Mills (actor),
Edie Martin (actress),
Plot: Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife 'Mrs. Joe'. When the boy finds two hidden escaped galley convicts, he obeys under -probably unnecessary- threat of a horrible death to bring the criminals food he must steal at peril of more caning from the battle-ax. Just when Pip fears to get it really good while they have guests, a soldier comes for Joe who takes Pip along as assistant to work on the chains of escaped galley-convicts, who are soon caught. The better-natured one takes the blame for the stolen food. Later Pip is invited to became the playmate of Estelle, the equally arrogant adoptive daughter of gloomy, filthy rich Miss Havisham at her estate, who actually has 'permission' to break the kind kid's heart; being the only pretty girl he ever saw, she wins his heart forever, even after a mysterious benefactor pays through a lawyer for his education and a rich allowance, so he can become a snob in London, by now 'ashamed' of simple Joe. Only after years in idle wealth, Pip learns Havisham is not his benefactor as he assumed, and both her story and those of his real sponsor and Estelle...
Keywords: 1820s, 19th-century, absent-father, abuse, abusive-wife, accidental-fire, adopted-daughter, arrest, audio-flashback, based-on-novel
Genres:
Drama,
Romance,
Taglines: From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece ! Great Thrills! Great Romance! Great Suspense! Great Adventure! NOW The Screen Fulfills Your Greatest Expectations...In ACTION! In ADVENTURE! In ROMANCE!
Quotes:
[welcoming Pip to her decaying mansion]::Miss Havisham: Come nearer. Let me look at you. Come close. Look at me. You aren't afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since before you were born?
Pip: [narrating] In trying to become a gentleman, I had succeeded in becoming a snob.
Magwitch: Keep still, you young devil, or I'll slit your throat!
Joe Gargery: Pip! A young gentleman of great expectations.