The film tells about an orphan, Pip. One day, he meets two hidden escaped galley convicts, who ask him to bring them food. He must steal at peril of more caning from the battle-ax. Later Pip is invited to became the playmate of Estelle, the equally arrogant adoptive daughter of…

• Great Expectations
• David Lean
• John Mills
• Valerie Hobson
• Tony Wager