Oliver Twist

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

Dickie Moore

Dickie Moore

as Oliver Twist

Irving Pichel

Irving Pichel

as Fagin

William 'Stage' Boyd

William 'Stage' Boyd

as Bill Sikes

Doris Lloyd

Doris Lloyd

as Nancy Sikes

Alec B. Francis

Alec B. Francis

as Mr. Brownlow

Barbara Kent

Barbara Kent

as Rose Maylie

Sonny Ray

Sonny Ray

as The Artful Dodger

George K. Arthur

George K. Arthur

as Toby Crackit

George Nash

George Nash

as Charles Bates

Clyde Cook

Clyde Cook

as Chitling

Reviews

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...

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