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
CinemaSerf
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...