Great Expectations

Story

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Paul West, Robert G. Vignola

Writers

Paul West, Charles Dickens, Doty Hobart

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

8 January 1917

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Jack Pickford

  Pip

• 

  Louise Huff

  Estella

• 

  Frank Losee

  Able Magwitch, alias Provis

• William Black

  Joe Gargery

• 

  Marcia Harris

  Mrs. Gargery

• Grace Barton

  Miss Havisham

• 

  Herbert Prior

  Mr. Jaggers