

Oliver Twist
A Screen Event To Be Remembered For All Time !
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $375K
- Box office
- $400K
- Language
- English
- child abuse
- based on novel or book
- pickpocket
- victorian england
- black and white
- orphan
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR29 Jul 1951
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalU28 Jun 1948
AustriaAT
- Theatrical1228 Sept 1951
FranceFR
- TheatricalU15 Oct 1948
GermanyDE
- Theatrical12genauer Veröffentlichungstag unbekannt.1 Feb 1949
ItalyIT
- PremiereVenice Film Festival19 Aug 1948
- Theatrical13 Oct 1948
JapanJP
- Theatrical28 Jul 1953
NetherlandsNL
- PhysicalALDVD19 Jan 2012
RussiaSU
- Theatrical31 Jan 1961
South KoreaKR
- Digital / OTT1227 Jan 2004
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Oliver Twist was released on 28 June 1948.
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CinemaSerf
7/9/2022
You only have to watch the opening few sequences of David Lean's striking adaptation of this, probably the most famous of Dickens' stories, to know that you are in for a treat. The dark clouds chase the poor, wretched, mother as she seeks any shelter she can from the impending storm and so, Oliver is born in the workhouse and the story begins. Francis L. Sullivan and Mary Clare are super as the exploitative and cruel…
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