Oliver Twist
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.
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Director: David Lean, George Pollock
Actors: Alec Guinness, Anthony Newley, Francis L. Sullivan, Henry Stephenson, John Howard Davies, Kay Walsh, Mary Clare, Michael Dear, Ralph Truman, Robert Newton