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A Screen Event To Be Remembered For All Time ! - Oliver Twist
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Title: Oliver Twist

Release Date: 28 Jun 1948

Runtime: 1h 56m

Genre: Drama, Adventure, Crime, Comedy

Director: Cineguild, J. Arthur Rank Organisation

Production Companies: 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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Ratings

Average Vote: 7.5 (229 votes)

Cast

  • Oliver Twist: John Howard Davies
  • Bill Sykes: Robert Newton
  • Fagin: Alec Guinness
  • Nancy: Kay Walsh
  • Mr. Bumble: Francis L. Sullivan
  • Mr. Brownlow: Henry Stephenson
  • Mrs. Corney: Mary Clare
  • Artful Dodger: Anthony Newley
  • Monks: Ralph Truman
  • Noah Claypole: Michael Dear
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