Oliver Twist (1948)

Directed by

David Lean

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 258 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young orphan named Oliver Twist runs away from a workhouse and falls in with a gang of pickpockets in London. He is caught between the criminal group and the authorities who try to rescue him.

grimgrittytensemelancholicvisually starkclassic storytellingbritishperiod

What happens

Oliver Twist is a 1948 British film and the second of David Lean's two film adaptations of Charles Dickens novels. Following his 1946 version of Great Expectations, Lean re-assembled much of the same team for his adaptation of Dickens' 1838 novel, including producers Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan, cinematographer Guy Green, designer John Bryan and editor Jack Harris. Lean's then-wife, Kay Walsh, who had collaborated on the screenplay for Great Expectations, played the role of Nancy. John Howard Davies was cast as Oliver, while Alec Guinness portrayed Fagin and Robert Newton played Bill Sykes (Bill Sikes in the novel). In 1999, the British Film Institute placed it at 46th in its list of the top 100 British films. In 2005 it was named in the BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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