A Screen Event To Be Remembered For All Time !
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.
- 7.6
- 1948
- Released
- 2h 1m
Robert Newton
Bill Sykes
Alec Guinness
Fagin
Kay Walsh
Nancy
Francis L. Sullivan
Mr. Bumble
Henry Stephenson
Mr. Brownlow
Mary Clare
Mrs. Corney
Anthony Newley
Artful Dodger
Ralph Truman
Monks
Michael Dear
Noah Claypole
Diana Dors
Charlotte
Josephine Stuart
Oliver's Mother
Kathleen Harrison
Mrs Sowerberry
Gibb McLaughlin
Mr. Sowerberry
Amy Veness
Mrs. Bedwin
Frederick Lloyd
Mr. Grimwig
Ivor Barnard
Chairman of the Board
Maurice Denham
Chief of Police
Michael Ripper
Barney
Peter Bull
Landlord of 'Three Cripples'Deidre Doyle
Mrs. ThingummyKenneth Downey
Workhouse Master (as Kenneth Downy)
W.G. Fay
Bookseller
Edie Martin
AnnieFay Middleton
MarthaGraveley Edwards
Mr. FangJohn Potter
Charlie BatesMaurice Jones
Workhouse Doctor
Hattie Jacques
Singer at 'Three Cripples'Betty Paul
Singer at 'Three Cripples'
Johnny Briggs
Undetermined Minor Role (Uncredited)Albert Chevalier
Courtroom Policeman (Uncredited)
Erik Chitty
Workhouse Board Member (Uncredited)
Arthur Mullard
Undetermined Minor Role (Uncredited)
Nosher Powell
Undetermined Minor Role (Uncredited)
Dennis Wyndham
Man In Street Who Punches Oliver (Uncredited)
Released
en
$375,000.00
$400,000.00
- #child abuse
- #based on novel or book
- #pickpocket
- #victorian england
- #black and white
- #orphan
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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 ex