Great Expectations (1974)

6.8/10 100 min Drama Romance TV Movie

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

Michael York

Pip

Sarah Miles

Estella

James Mason

Magwitch

Margaret Leighton

Miss Havisham

Robert Morley

Uncle Pumblechook

Anthony Quayle

Jaggers

Joss Ackland

Joe Gargery

Rachel Roberts

Mrs. Gargery

Heather Sears

Biddy

Andrew Ray

Herbert Pocket

Simon Gipps-Kent

Young Pip

James Faulkner

Bentley Drummle

Sam Kydd

Scarred Convict

Peter Bull

Wemmick

John Clive

Mr. Wopsle

Dudley Sutton

Criminal

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