
Great Expectations
- 1917
- Drama
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.
Fun facts
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Based on
Based on the novel Great Expectations
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Setting
Set in London
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Cinematography
Cinematography by William Marshall
Details
- Directors
- Writers
- Charles DickensNovel
- Doty HobartWriter
- Paul WestWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 8, 1917
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America


























