Great Expectations (1934 film)

1934 film by Stuart Walker

This article is about the 1934 film adaptation of Dickens' novel. For other uses, see Great Expectations (disambiguation).

Great Expectations

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Directed by| Stuart Walker
Written by| Gladys Unger
Based on| Great Expectations
1861 novel
by Charles Dickens
Produced by| Stanley Bergerman
Starring| Phillips Holmes
Jane Wyatt
Florence Reed
Francis L. Sullivan
Cinematography| George Robinson
Music by| Edward Ward

Production
company

Universal Pictures

Distributed by| Universal Pictures

Release date

* October 22, 1934 (1934-10-22)

Running time

| 100 minutes
Country| United States
Language| English

Great Expectations is a 1934 adaptation of the 1861 Charles Dickens novel of the same name. Filmed with mostly American actors, it was the first sound version of the novel and was produced in Hollywood by Universal Studios and directed by Stuart Walker. It stars Phillips Holmes as Pip, Jane Wyatt as Estella and Florence Reed as Miss Havisham.[1]

Critics consider this 1934 version far inferior to the classic 1946 version, made in England and directed by David Lean. A notable link between the two movies is that Francis L. Sullivan played the role of Jaggers in both.

This film differs somewhat from the novel in making Miss Havisham more eccentric than insane. Unlike the novel, she does not wear her bridal veil constantly, does not seem to have really engineered all of Pip's misfortunes with Estella, and dies offscreen of natural causes rather than in a fire.

## Plot

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## Cast

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* Henry Hull as Abel Magwitch
* Phillips Holmes as Pip
* Jane Wyatt as Estella
* Florence Reed as Miss Havisham
* Alan Hale as Joe Gargery
* Rafaela Ottiano as Mrs. Joe Gargery
* George Barraud as Compeyson
* Francis L. Sullivan as Mr. Jaggers
* Douglas Wood as Wopsle
* Forrester Harvey as Uncle Pumblechook
* George P. Breakston as Pip, as a Child
* Harry Cording as Orlick
* Eily Malyon as Sarah Pocket (billed as Eily Malyan)
* Anne Howard as Estella, as a Child
* Walter Armitage as Herbert Pocket
* Walter Brennan as Prisoner on Ship (uncredited)

## References

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1. ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1931–40 by The American Film Institute, c. 1993

## External links

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* Great Expectations at IMDb
* Great Expectations at the TCM Movie Database
* Great Expectations at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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Charles Dickens's Great Expectations

Characters|

* Philip "Pip" Pirrip
* Estella
* Compeyson
* Miss Havisham
* Arthur Havisham
* Abel Magwitch
* John Wemmick

Films|

* 1917
* 1934
* 1946
* An Orphan's Tragedy (1955 film)
* 1974
* 1998
* 1999
* 2012
* Fitoor (2016)

TV series|

* 1967
* 1981
* 1989
* 2011
* 2023

Other adaptations|

* 1975 musical
* Miss Havisham's Fire (1979 opera)
* "Pip" (2000 South Park retelling)

Related|

* Great Expectations: The Untold Story
* Eliza Emily Donnithorne

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Films directed by Stuart Walker

* The False Madonna (1931)
* The Secret Call (1931)
* Evenings for Sale (1932)
* The Misleading Lady (1932)
* The Eagle and the Hawk (1933)
* Tonight Is Ours (1933)
* White Woman (1933)
* Great Expectations (1934)
* Romance in the Rain (1934)
* Werewolf of London (1935)
* The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)
* Manhattan Moon (1935)

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