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.

Dickie Moore
as Oliver Twist

Irving Pichel
as Fagin

William 'Stage' Boyd
as Bill Sikes

Doris Lloyd
as Nancy Sikes

Alec B. Francis
as Mr. Brownlow

Barbara Kent
as Rose Maylie

Sonny Ray
as The Artful Dodger

George K. Arthur
as Toby Crackit

George Nash
as Charles Bates

Clyde Cook
as Chitling
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I don't know how many versions of this classic Dickens story I have seen (I was even in one on stage in the early 1980s) but I have to give this credit for being the only one, to date, that has made me laugh. The cherubic young Dickie Moore in the title role was seven or eight when he made this, and...