GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Year: 1948
UK: BFI (UK Wide)
Cast: John Mills, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Martita Hunt, Valerie Hobson, Jean Simmons, Alec Guinness, Anthony Wager, Francis L Sullivan, Ivor Barnard, Freda Jackson, Eileen Erskine, George Hayes, Hay Petrie, John Forrest, Torin Thatcher, O B Clarence, John E Burch, Richard George, Grace Denbigh-Russell, Everley Gregg, Anne Holland, Frank Atkinson, Gordon Begg, Edie Martin, Walford Hyden, Roy Arthur
Director: David Lean
Country: UK
UK: 118 mins
UK Certificate: PG contains mild violence and scary moments
UK Release Date: 2 February 2007 (Limited Re-release)
UK Distributor

Synopsis

David Lean's GREAT EXPECTATION's is vivid adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic about a poor orphan boy and his mysterious benefactor who enables him to move to London and become a gentleman.

Filmed in black and white this is a new restoration by the BFI National Archive and Granada International, funded by the David Lean Foundation.