In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
John Mills
as Pip
Valerie Hobson
as Estella
Tony Wager
as Young Pip
Jean Simmons
as Young Estella
Bernard Miles
as Joe Gargery
Francis L. Sullivan
as Mr. Jaggers
Finlay Currie
as Abel Magwitch
Martita Hunt
as Miss Havisham
Alec Guinness
as Herbert Pocket
Ivor Barnard
as Mr. Wemmick
Freda Jackson
as Mrs. Joe
Eileen Erskine
as Biddy