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Oliver Twist (1948)
Directed by David Lean
“A Screen Event To Be Remembered For All Time !”
Drama · 2h 01m
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.
Cast
John Howard Davies
Oliver Twist
Robert Newton
Bill Sykes
Alec Guinness
Fagin
Kay Walsh
Nancy
Francis L. Sullivan
Mr. Bumble
Henry Stephenson
Mr. Brownlow
Mary Clare
Mrs. Corney
Anthony Newley
Artful Dodger
Ralph Truman
Monks
M
Michael Dear
Noah Claypole
Diana Dors
Charlotte
Josephine Stuart
Oliver's Mother
Crew
- Director
- David Lean
- Screenplay
- Stanley Haynes, David Lean
- Novel
- Charles Dickens
- Director of Photography
- Guy Green
- Original Music Composer
- Arnold Bax
- Editor
- Jack Harris
- Producer
- Ronald Neame
Details
- Release date
- 1948-06-28
- Runtime
- 2h 01m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Cineguild, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
- Budget
- $375,000
- Box office
- $400,000