Great Expectations is a 1946 British film which won two Academy Awards and was nominated for three others . It was directed by David Lean, based on the novel by Charles Dickens and stars John Mills, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Jean Simmons, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness and Valerie Hobson. The script, a slimmed-down version of Dickens' novel that had been inspired after seeing an abridged stage version of the novel, in which Guinness played Herbert Pocket and Martita Hunt was Miss Havisham, was written by David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Cecil McGivern, Ronald Neame and Kay Walsh.... Guinness and Hunt reprised their roles in the film, but the film was not a strict adaptation of the stage version. The film was produced by Ronald Neame and photographed by Guy Green. It was the first of two films Lean directed based on Dickens' novels, the other being his 1948 adaptation of Oliver Twist. Orphan Phillip "Pip" Pirrip lives with his shrewish older sister and her kind-hearted blacksmith husband, Joe Gargery .
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| Release date: | 1946 |
| Directed by: | David Lean |
| Runtime: | 118 Minutes |
| Producer: | Ronald Neame |
| Music by: | Walter Goehr |
| Cinematography: | Guy Green |
| Screenplay by: | Anthony Havelock-Allan, Cecil McGivern, Ronald Neame, Kay Walsh, David Lean |
| Adapted from: | Great Expectations |