It’s not better than the book. But it is a tad shorter.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

David Lean

1946

John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Jean Simmons

Screenplay by Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Ronald Neame, Cecil McGivern and Kay Walsh; adapted from the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Title: GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Year: 1946

Director: David Lean

Cast: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Jean Simmons

Writing: Screenplay by Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, Ronald Neame, Cecil McGivern and Kay Walsh; adapted from the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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