Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

7.6IMDb Score
Released:1948-06-28
Duration:121 min
Director:David Lean
Actors:John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan
Production:Cineguild, J. Arthur Rank Organisation

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.

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