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28/06/1948 Drama, Adventure, Crime, Comedy 2h 1m
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A Screen Event To Be Remembered For All Time !

Overview

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

  1. David Lean

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. John Howard Davies

    Oliver Twist

  2. Robert Newton

    Bill Sykes

  3. Alec Guinness

    Fagin

  4. Kay Walsh

    Nancy

  5. Francis L. Sullivan

    Mr. Bumble

  6. Henry Stephenson

    Mr. Brownlow

  7. Mary Clare

    Mrs. Corney

  8. Anthony Newley

    Artful Dodger

  9. Ralph Truman

    Monks

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-07-09
You only have to watch the opening few sequences of David Lean's striking adaptation of this, probably the most famous of Dickens' stories, to know that you are in for a treat. The dark clouds chase the poor, wretched, mother as she seeks any shelter she can from the impending storm and so, Oliver is born in the workhouse and the story begins. Francis L. Sullivan and Mary Clare are super as the exploitative and cruel face of the workhouse from which he is eventually sold and after a brief spell leading funeral cortèges for children, Oliver ends up befriending the Artful Dodger (Anthony Newley...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$375,000.00

Revenue
$400,000.00

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