Oliver Twist

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1951-07-30

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (8126 Reviews)

Director:

David Lean

Genres:

Adventure Crime Drama

Cast:

Robert Newton Alec Guinness Kay Walsh Francis L. Sullivan

Writer:

Charles Dickens (by)

David Lean (screen play)

Stanley Haynes (screen play)

Fullplot:

Based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist is about an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. Oliver is taken in by the pickpocket and he joins a household of young boys who are trained to steal for their master. This version of Oliver Twist is topped by Alec Guinness's masterly performance of arch-thug Fagin.

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