Great Expectations
From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!
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.
- Director
- David Lean
- Signature
- Drama · Craft · Tension
- Worldwide
- $420,000
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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.
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Box Office & Release
Great Expectations returned 1.1× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $400,000
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $420,000
- Release date
- Dec 26, 1946
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
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