Great Expectations (1922)

7.0/10 • 113 min • 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.

Cast

Gerhard Jessen

Joe Gargery the blacksmith

Martin Herzberg

Pip as a child

Marie Dinesen

Olga Belajeff

Estella, Miss Havisham's foster daughter

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