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Great Expectations
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Great Expectations

Oct 22, 1934
1h 40m
★ 6.2

The World's Greatest Story! The Most Talked About Book! Lives for the First Time on the Screen!

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

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Cast

Henry Hull

Abel Magwitch

Henry Hull

Phillips Holmes

Pip

Phillips Holmes

Jane Wyatt

Estella

Jane Wyatt

Florence Reed

Miss Havisham

Florence Reed

Alan Hale

Joe Gargery

Alan Hale

Rafaela Ottiano

Mrs. Joe

Rafaela Ottiano

George Barraud

Compeyson

George Barraud

Francis L. Sullivan

Jaggers

Francis L. Sullivan

Douglas Wood

Wopsle

Douglas Wood

Forrester Harvey

Uncle Pumblechook

Forrester Harvey

George P. Breakston

Young Pip

George P. Breakston

Harry Cording

Orlick

Harry Cording

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