Movie

Great Expectations (1934)

• NR
• October 22, 1934
• 1h 40m

• Drama

“The World's Greatest Story! The Most Talked About Book! Lives for the First Time on the Screen!”

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.

Director

Stuart Walker

Writers

Charles Dickens, Gladys Unger

Starring

Henry Hull, Phillips Holmes, Jane Wyatt