Oliver Twist
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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.
- 4.8
- 1933
- Released
- 1h 20m
Dickie Moore
Oliver Twist
Irving Pichel
Fagin
William 'Stage' Boyd
Bill Sikes
Doris Lloyd
Nancy Sikes
Alec B. Francis
Mr. Brownlow
Barbara Kent
Rose Maylie
Sonny Ray
The Artful Dodger
George K. Arthur
Toby Crackit
George Nash
Charles Bates
Clyde Cook
Chitling
Lionel Belmore
Mr. Bumble
Tempe Pigott
Mrs. Corney
Released
en
- #based on novel or book
- #pickpocket
- #orphanage
- #orphan
- #literary adaptation
- #19th century
Reviews
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 s