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Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife 'Mrs. Joe'. When the boy finds two hidden escaped galley convicts, he obeys under -probably unnecessary- threat of a horrible death to bring the criminals food he must steal at peril of more caning from the battle-ax. Just when Pip fears to get it really good while they have guests, a soldier comes for Joe who takes Pip along as assistant to work on the chains of escaped galley-convicts, who are soon caught. The better-natured one takes the blame for the stolen food. Later Pip is invited to became the playmate of Estelle, the equally arrogant adoptive daughter of gloomy, filthy rich Miss Havisham at her estate, who actually has 'permission' to break the kind kid's heart; being the only pretty girl he ever saw, she wins his heart forever, even after a mysterious benefactor pays trough a lawyer for his education and a rich allowance, so he can become a snob in London, by now 'ashamed' of simple Joe. Only after years in idle wealth, Pip learns Havisham is not his benefactor as he assumed, and both her story and those of his real sponsor and Estelle...
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| John Mills |
(Pip) |
| Tony Wager |
(Young Pip) |
| Valerie Hobson |
(Estella) |
| Jean Simmons |
(Young Estella) |
| Bernard Miles |
(Joe Gargery) |
| Francis L. Sullivan |
(Mr. Jaggers) |
| Finlay Currie |
(Abel Magwitch) |
| Martita Hunt |
(Miss Havisham) |
| Alec Guinness |
(Herbert Pocket) |
| Ivor Barnard |
(Mr. Wemmick) |
| Freda Jackson |
(Mrs. Joe Gargery) |
| Eileen Erskine |
(Biddy) |
| George Hayes |
(Convict) |
| Hay Petrie |
(Uncle Pumblechook) |
| John Forrest |
(The Pale Young Gentleman) |
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| Torin Thatcher |
(Bentley Drummle) |
| O.B. Clarence |
(The Aged Parent) |
| John Burch |
(Mr. Wopsle) |
| Richard George |
(The Sergeant) |
| Grace Denbigh Russell |
(Mrs. Wopsle) |
| Everley Gregg |
(Sarah Pocket) |
| Anne Holland |
(Relation) |
| Frank Atkinson |
(Mike) |
| Gordon Begg |
(Night Porter) |
| Edie Martin |
(Mrs. Whimple) |
| Walford Hyden |
(The Dancing Master) |
| Roy Arthur |
(Galley Steersman) |
| Howard Lang |
(Man sitting next to Pip at...) |
| Ernie Pratt |
(Police officer in boat (uncredited)) |
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