Based on the Dickens novel and winner of two Academy Awards,

Great Expectations tells the story of Pip (John Mills), a blacksmith's apprentice who inherits a handsome property. He believes that his unexpected good fortune has originated from Miss Havisham (Martita Hunt), an eccentric old lady with whom he was acquainted through playing with her adopted daughter Estella as a child.

However, Pip's great expectations have emanated from another quarter. The first Dickens novel that Lean adapted for the screen, it was voted the fifth greatest British film of the twentieth century by the British Film Institute.