Oliver Twist

A Screen Event To Be Remembered For All Time !

Based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist is about an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. Oliver is taken in by the pickpocket and he joins a household of young boys who are trained to steal for their master. This version of Oliver Twist is topped by Alec Guinness's masterly performance of arch-thug Fagin.

Direction

David Lean

Screenplay

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Charles Dickens

David Lean

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Stanley Haynes

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Eric Ambler

Kay Walsh