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Great Expectations (1946) [NR]

Release Date:
December 26, 1946

Original Title:
Great Expectations

Alternate Titles:
Cadenas rotas
おおいなるいさん
孤星血泪

Genres:
Drama | History | Romance

Production Companies:
Cineguild
J. Arthur Rank Organisation

Production Countries:
United Kingdom

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 16  GB: PG  NL: AL  US: NR 

Runtime: 118

From the Vivid Pages of Charles Dickens' Masterpiece!

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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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Art Direction:
Wilfred Shingleton

Assistant Costume Designer:
Margaret Furse

Assistant Director:
George Pollock

Boom Operator:
George Paternoster

Camera Operator:
Robert Huke

Casting:
Pat MacDonnell
Adele Raymond
Maude Spector

Choreographer:
Suria Magito

Conductor:
Walter Goehr

Continuity:
Maggie Unsworth

Costume Design:
Sophie Devine

Director:
David Lean

Director of Photography:
Guy Green

Editor:
Jack Harris

Executive Producer:
Anthony Havelock-Allan

Focus Puller:
Jim Body

Makeup Artist:
George Blackler
Ernest Gasser

Novel:
Charles Dickens

Original Music Composer:
Walter Goehr

Producer:
Ronald Neame

Production Design:
John Bryan

Production Manager:
Norman Spencer

Screenplay:
David Lean
Ronald Neame
Anthony Havelock-Allan
Kay Walsh
Cecil McGivern

Sound Editor:
Winston Ryder

Sound Recordist:
Stanley Lambourne
Gordon K. McCallum

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