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Ronald Harwood. Screenplay. Oliver Twist the modern filmed version of Charles Dickens bestseller, a Roman Polanski adaptation. The classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Mark Lester as Oliver Twist; Ron Moody as Fagin; Jack Wild as Artful Dodger; Oliver Reed as Bill Sikes; Shani Wallis as Nancy; Harry Secombe as Mr. Bumble; Joseph O'Conor as Mr. Brownlow; Hugh Griffith as the Magistrate; Peggy Mount as Corney Darkness; Leonard Rossiter as Mr. Sowerberry; Hylda Baker as Mrs. Sowerberry; Kenneth Cranham as Noah ...
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and as a three-volume book in 1838. [1] The story follows the titular orphan, who, after being raised in a workhouse, escapes to London, where he meets a gang of juvenile pickpockets led ...
Winston Ryder. Charles Dickens. David Lean. Stanley Haynes. 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.
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.
Lionel Bart. Book, Lyricist. Charles Dickens. Novel. Vernon Harris. Screenplay. Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
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