Overview
Plot
Nine-year-old orphan Oliver Twist asks cruel Mr. Bumble for more gruel and is apprenticed out. He escapes, joins the Artful Dodger and Fagin, and finds shelter with kind Mr. Brownlow—until Bill Sikes plots to kidnap him.
- Directors
- David Lean
- Cast
- John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan, Henry Stephenson, Mary Clare, Anthony Newley, Ralph Truman, Michael Dear, Diana Dors, Josephine Stuart, Kathleen Harrison, Gibb McLaughlin, Amy Veness, Frederick Lloyd, Henry Edwards, Ivor Barnard, Maurice Denham, Michael Ripper
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Genre
- Drama
- Release date
- 1948-06-28
- Studios
- Cineguild, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
Plot
Warning: spoilers
Oliver Twist Plot and Cast
After daring to request a second serving of gruel from the cruel Mr. Bumble, nine-year-old orphan Oliver Twist is hired out as an apprentice. He escapes that dismal fate and falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When the kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
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