Great Expectations (1947)
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Cast
as Pip
as Estella
as Young Estella
as Young Pip
as Joe Gargery
as Magwitch
as Miss Havisham
as Pocket
as Wemmick
as Mrs. Gargery
as Drummle
as Sarah Pocket
as Biddy
as Uncle Pumblechook
as Mrs. Wopsle
as Jaggers
as The Sergeant
as Sarah Pocket
as Mr. Wopsle
as Aged Parent
as Mrs. Wopsle
as Pale Young Gentleman
as A Relation
as Mike
as Night Porter
as Compeyson
as Mrs. Whimple
as Dancing Master
as Galley Steersman
Critic Reviews for Great Expectations
All Critics (27) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (27) | Rotten (0) | DVD (1)
Only rabid Dickensians will find fault with the present adaptation, and paradoxically only lovers of Dickens will derive maximum pleasure from the film.
The graveyard scene is still a shocker, the details are still astonishingly well assembled, and the performances are wonderful.
David Lean's black-and-white masterpiece may be a whirlwind tour of Dickens' novel, but what a well-performed, economic and atmospheric tour it is.
[A] glowing illumination of the warm and deliciously surprising tale.
[It] has been called the greatest of all the Dickens films, and [it] does what few movies based on great books can do: Creates pictures on the screen that do not clash with the images already existing in our minds.
Handsome and ghostly.
Audience Reviews for Great Expectations
Underneath the action of Dickens tale, with wonderful direction and heartfelt acting (particularly by the ladies!), is a poignant illustration of the longing for class and status as a necessary means of survival, a way to forbear the ills and evils of the world. By the reckoning of the film, poverty is the worst that the world has to offer. A luminous work.
Super Reviewer
As someone who was never a big fan of the source book this version is a decent and relatively faithful rendition of it. John Mills is far too old to play Pip and it shows additionally they should of had Jean Simmons play Estella all the way through, she is much truer to the book version than Valerie Hobson. Martita Hunt makes a fine Miss Havisham. It's all a bit stodgy though
Super Reviewer
The one and only Great Expectations movie all the rest do not live up to the book.
Super Reviewer
Great Expectations Quotes
| Joe Gargery: | What larks |
| Joe Gargery: | What larks. |
| Estella as a girl: | He calls the knaves "jacks"! |
| Estella as a girl: | He calls the knaves 'jacks'! |