Oliver Twist (1948)
1948 · Feature film · 111 min · dir. David Lean
A Screen Event To Be Remembered For All Time !
- Drama
- Adventure
- Crime
Synopsis
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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Details
- Director
- David Lean
- Writer
- Charles Dickens
- Composer
- Arnold Bax
- Cinematography
- Guy Green
- Studio
- Cineguild, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
- Released
- 1948-06-28
- Running time
- 111 minutes
Cast & crew
David Lean Director
John Howard Davies
Robert Newton
Alec Guinness
Kay Walsh
Francis L. Sullivan
Henry Stephenson
Mary Clare
Anthony Newley
