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.
Cast
John Mills
Pip
Valerie Hobson
Estella
Tony Wager
Young Pip
Jean Simmons
Young Estella
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
Torin Thatcher
Bentley Drummle
O.B. Clarence
The Aged Parent
John Burch
Mr. Wopsle
Richard George
The Sergeant
Grace Denbigh Russell
Mrs. Wopsle
Everley Gregg
Sarah Pocket
Anne Holland
Relation
Frank Atkinson
Mike
Gordon Begg
Night Porter
Edie Martin
Mrs. Whimple
Walford Hyden
The Dancing Master
Roy Arthur
Galley Steersman
Howard Lang
Man sitting next to Pip at Magwitch's Trial (uncredited)
Crew
David Lean
Director, Screenplay
Cecil McGivern
Screenplay
Ronald Neame
Screenplay, Producer
Anthony Havelock-Allan
Screenplay, Executive Producer
Kay Walsh
Screenplay
Charles Dickens
Novel
Jack Harris
Editor
Guy Green
Director of Photography
George Pollock
Assistant Director
John Bryan
Production Design
Robert Huke
Camera Operator
Maude Spector
Casting
Pat MacDonnell
Casting
Adele Raymond
Casting
Margaret Furse
Assistant Costume Designer
Sophie Devine
Costume Design
George Blackler
Makeup Artist
Ernest Gasser
Makeup Artist
Winston Ryder
Sound Editor
Gordon K. McCallum
Sound Recordist
Stanley Lambourne
Sound Recordist
George Paternoster
Boom Operator
Walter Goehr
Original Music Composer, Conductor
Erik Blakemore
Set Decoration
Suria Magito
Choreographer
Maggie Unsworth
Continuity
Norman Spencer
Production Manager
Jim Body
Focus Puller
Wilfred Shingleton
Art Direction
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