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{en} '''''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Expectations_(1946_film) Great Expectations]''''' (UK, 1946), directed by David Lean, starring John Mills and Valerie Hobson.  
{en} '''''Great Expectations''''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Expectations_(1946_film) ] (UK, 1946), directed by David Lean, starring John Mills (Pip), Tony Wager (Young Pip), Valerie Hobson (Estella), Jean Simmons (Young Estella), Finlay Currie (Magwitch), Martita Hunt (Miss Havisham).
 
A humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor.
 
Charles Dickens' classic tale of Pip, a poor orphan who befriends an escaped convict and who grows up in the company of a bitter old woman, Miss Havisham, and her haughty young ward, Estella. Pip learns the rewards of both vindictiveness and gratitude as a result of these events. Anthony Wager plays the role of the young Pip in the first half of the movie.
 
Regarded as the best among the earliest adaptations of the novel.
 


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{en} Great Expectations [1] (UK, 1946), directed by David Lean, starring John Mills (Pip), Tony Wager (Young Pip), Valerie Hobson (Estella), Jean Simmons (Young Estella), Finlay Currie (Magwitch), Martita Hunt (Miss Havisham).

A humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor.

Charles Dickens' classic tale of Pip, a poor orphan who befriends an escaped convict and who grows up in the company of a bitter old woman, Miss Havisham, and her haughty young ward, Estella. Pip learns the rewards of both vindictiveness and gratitude as a result of these events. Anthony Wager plays the role of the young Pip in the first half of the movie.

Regarded as the best among the earliest adaptations of the novel.

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