Oliver Twist poster
Director David Lean
Screenplay David Lean, Stanley Haynes

Oliver Twist

Tagline: A Screen Event To Be Remembered For All Time !

Release Date: 1948-06-28

Duration: 116 minutes

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.

Casting

  • Alec Guinness
    Fagin
  • Diana Dors
    Charlotte
  • Maurice Denham
    Chief of Police
  • Hattie Jacques
    Singer at 'Three Cripples'
  • Kay Walsh
    Nancy
  • Mary Clare
    Mrs. Corney
  • Michael Ripper
    Barney
  • Henry Stephenson
    Mr. Brownlow
  • Robert Newton
    Bill Sykes
  • Kathleen Harrison
    Mrs Sowerberry