Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
The story
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.
- london
- england
- based on novel or book
- escaped convict
- orphan
- spinster
- 19th century
- benefactor
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Bernard Miles — Joe Gargery
- Francis L. Sullivan — Mr. Jaggers
- Finlay Currie — Abel Magwitch
- Martita Hunt — Miss Havisham
- Alec Guinness — Herbert Pocket
- Ivor Barnard — Mr. Wemmick
- Freda Jackson — Mrs. Joe
- Eileen Erskine — Biddy
- George Hayes — Convict
- Hay Petrie — Uncle Pumblechook
- John Forrest — The Pale Young Gentleman
- Directed
- David Lean
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 379 ratings
- Studio
- Cineguild, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
