Great Expectations

Genre: literary drama

Year Published: 1946

Creator: David Lean

Format: 16mm

Credits: Cast: John Mills, Jean Simmons, Valerie Hobson, Alec Guinness

Description: Great ExpectationsAn excerpt from the 1934 feature film from Universal International Pictures Phillip "Pip" Pirrip (Anthony Wager) lives with his shrewish older sister and her kind-hearted blacksmith husband, Joe Gargery. Miss Havisham (Martita Hunt) arranges to have Pip come to her mansion regularly to provide her with company and to play with her adopted daughter, a cruel but beautiful teenage girl, Estella. Estella mocks Pip's coarse manners at every opportunity, but Pip falls in love with her. Six years later, Pip's lawyer visits Pip (played as adult by John Mills) to tell him that a benefactor has offered to transform him into a

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Metadata Source:University of Georgia Brown Media Archives