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28/02/1933 Drama 1h 20m
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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. William J. Cowen

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Dickie Moore

    Oliver Twist

  2. Irving Pichel

    Fagin

  3. William 'Stage' Boyd

    Bill Sikes

  4. Doris Lloyd

    Nancy Sikes

  5. Alec B. Francis

    Mr. Brownlow

  6. Barbara Kent

    Rose Maylie

  7. Sonny Ray

    The Artful Dodger

  8. George K. Arthur

    Toby Crackit

  9. George Nash

    Charles Bates

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-13
I don't know how many versions of this classic Dickens story I have seen (I was even in one on stage in the early 1980s) but I have to give this credit for being the only one, to date, that has made me laugh. The cherubic young Dickie Moore in the title role was seven or eight when he made this, and frequently he looks like he awaiting instructions from an off-screen parent before commencing his scene - more often than not with an hugely inappropriate smile, or grin, or both... The rest of the cast do a workmanlike job with this super story; Irving Pichel is quite convincing as the manipulativ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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