Great Expectations (1946)
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In Great Expectations (1946), Pip is accosted by an escaped convict in a graveyard and brings him food and drink. The convict returns the favor, upon his arrest by His Majesty's soldiers, by declaring that it was he who stole a meat pie and a dram of brandy from the blacksmith's house. Then Miss Haversham starts inviting Pip to "play" in her huge mansion (all but deserted, and with a Haunted House look completed with cobwebs). There he meets a proud, insulting but pretty girl whose company the lady encourages him to keep. This lasts until Pip turns 14 and begins his apprenticeship.
When he is 20, Pip is summoned to London to become a gentleman of "great expectations" by an unknown benefactor.