One of the great translations of literature into film, David Lean’s Great Expectations brings Charles Dickens’s masterpiece to robust on-screen life. Pip, Magwitch, Miss Havisham, and Estella populate Lean’s magnificent miniature, beautifully photographed by Guy Green and designed by John Bryan.

• 1 hr 58 min
• Directed by

  David Lean
• Written by Charles Dickens, Anthony Havelock Allan, David Lean, Cecil Mc Givern, Ronald Neame, Kay Walsh

• Starring

  Valerie Hobson

  ,

  Ronald Neame

  ,

  Sir John Mills