Great Expectations (1946)

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