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.
Jackie Coogan
as Oliver Twist
James A. Marcus
as Mr. Bumble
Aggie Herring
as Mrs. Corney
Lewis Sargent
as Noah Claypole
Joan Standing
as Charlotte
Carl Stockdale
as Monks
Edouard Trebaol
as The Artful Dodger
Lon Chaney
as Fagin
Taylor Graves
as Charley Bates
George Siegmann
as Bill Sikes
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Jackie Coogan was barely eight ears old when he turned his hand to one of Charles Dickens' more engaging characters. Born in the workhouse and quickly orphaned, he spends much of his young life picking oakum whilst constantly hungry. Scared that one of his friends might be reduced to having to eat h...