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Oliver Twist (1912)

Oliver Twist poster
Directed by
Thomas Bentley
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 26m
Rating
1.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young orphan boy named Oliver Twist escapes a workhouse and falls in with a group of child pickpockets in London. The story follows his struggle to survive and find kindness in a harsh urban world.

old-fashionedsilentsomberdramaticclassicmoralisticgrimrestrainedarchaic

What happens

Oliver Twist is a 1912 British silent drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Ivy Millais, Alma Taylor and Harry Royston. It is an adaptation of the 1838 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. It was the directorial debut of Bentley who went on to become a leading British director. It was the first in a series of Dickens adaptations by Bentley. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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