Great Expectations (1917)
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.
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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. Great Expectations is a Drama movie, released on 1917-01-08.
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Directed by
Paul West, Robert G. Vignola
Cast
- Jack Pickford as Pip
- Louise Huff as Estella
- Frank Losee as Able Magwitch, alias Provis
- William Black as Joe Gargery
- Marcia Harris as Mrs. Gargery
- Grace Barton as Miss Havisham
- Herbert Prior as Mr. Jaggers
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