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Oliver Twist

A Screen Event To Be Remembered For All Time !

7.6(268)19482h 1m4

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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Behind the camera

Director

David Lean

Produced in

United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • 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

Frequently asked questions

Oliver Twist was released on 28 June 1948.

Audience reviews

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    CinemaSerf

    7/9/2022

    8/10

    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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