Oliver Twist

Unrated

2/28/19331h 20m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ The Motion Picture Event of the Year! ~

Overview:

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.

Director:

William J. Cowen

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

based on novel or book
pickpocket
orphanage
orphan
literary adaptation
19th century

Cast

Dickie Moore

~ as ~

Oliver Twist

Irving Pichel

~ as ~

Fagin

William 'Stage' Boyd

~ as ~

Bill Sikes

Doris Lloyd

~ as ~

Nancy Sikes

Alec B. Francis

~ as ~

Mr. Brownlow

Barbara Kent

~ as ~

Rose Maylie

Sonny Ray

~ as ~

The Artful Dodger

George K. Arthur

~ as ~

Toby Crackit

George Nash

~ as ~

Charles Bates

Clyde Cook

~ as ~

Chitling

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 3 year(s) ago
5
I don't know how many versions of this classic Dickens story I have seen (I was even in one on stage in the early 1980s) but I have to give this credit for being the only one, to date, that has made me laugh. The cherubic young Dickie Moore in the title role was seven or eight when he made this, and frequently he looks like he awaiting instructions from an off-screen parent before commencing his scene - more often than not with an hugely inappropriate smile, or grin, or both... The rest of the cast do a workmanlike job with this super story; Irving Pichel is quite convincing as the manipulative miser "Fagin", as is Sonny Ray with his wobbly hat, as the "Artful Dodger" and a suitably sinister William Boyd as the villainous "Sikes". Subsequent versions are grittier and darker, offering us a much more malevolent view of London at the very start of the Victorian era, but this has a certain charm to it that makes the brief, quite well (and eerily at times) stitched together, adaptation well worth a gander.