Movie

Great Expectations (1917)

• January 8, 1917

• Drama

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.

Directors

Paul West, Robert G. Vignola

Writers

Paul West, Charles Dickens, Doty Hobart

Starring

Jack Pickford, Louise Huff, Frank Losee