Oliver Twist
A Screen Event To Be Remembered For All Time !
7.6(260) 1948-06-28 121 minDramaAdventureCrimeComedy
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.
ScreenplayStanley Haynes
DirectorDavid Lean
Original Music ComposerArnold Bax
ScreenplayDavid Lean
ProducerRonald Neame
Cast & characters
John Howard Davies
as Oliver Twist
Robert Newton
as Bill Sykes
Alec Guinness
as Fagin
Kay Walsh
as Nancy
Francis L. Sullivan
as Mr. Bumble
Henry Stephenson
as Mr. Brownlow
Mary Clare
as Mrs. Corney
Anthony Newley
as Artful Dodger
Ralph Truman
as Monks
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Michael Dear
as Noah Claypole
Diana Dors
as Charlotte
Josephine Stuart
as Oliver's Mother
Kathleen Harrison
as Mrs Sowerberry
Gibb McLaughlin
as Mr. Sowerberry
Amy Veness
as Mrs. Bedwin
Frederick Lloyd
as Mr. Grimwig
Henry Edwards
as Police Official
Ivor Barnard
as Chairman of the Board
Maurice Denham
as Chief of Police
Michael Ripper
as Barney
Peter Bull
as Landlord of 'Three Cripples'
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Deidre Doyle
as Mrs. Thingummy
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Kenneth Downey
as Workhouse Master (as Kenneth Downy)
W.G. Fay
as Bookseller
