Great Expectations

feature film, romantic drama, UK, 1946

DIRECTED BY: David Lean

Great Expectations

CAST:
John Mills (Pip),
Anthony Wager (mladi Pip),
Valerie Hobson (Estella / Molly),
Jean Simmons (mlada Estella),
Bernard Miles (Joe Gargery),
Francis L. Sullivan (gdin. Jaggers)

SCRIPT:
David Lean,
Anthony Havelock-Allan,
Cecil McGivern,
Ronald Neame,
Kay Walsh (based on novel by Charles Dickens)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Guy Green

MUSIC:
Walter Goehr

EDITING:
Jack Harris

Synopsis:
The version of the classic Charles Dickens story of Pip, an orphaned British boy who is befriended by a mysterious benefactor who enables him to become a gentleman of means...
This film won two Oscars (nominated for 4 - including the category the best director and screenplay)

b/w, 118'

Trailer