Oliver Twist

Jun 28, 1948

1h 56m

★ 7.5

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.

Genres

Drama

Adventure

Crime

Comedy

Production Companies

Cineguild

J. Arthur Rank Organisation

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Cast

Oliver Twist

John Howard Davies

Bill Sykes

Robert Newton

Fagin

Alec Guinness

Nancy

Kay Walsh

Mr. Bumble

Francis L. Sullivan

Mr. Brownlow

Henry Stephenson

Mrs. Corney

Mary Clare

Artful Dodger

Anthony Newley

Monks

Ralph Truman

Noah Claypole

Michael Dear

Charlotte

Diana Dors

Oliver's Mother

Josephine Stuart

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