Oliver Twist
MovieTitle | Oliver Twist |
User score | 7.5 |
Release date | Jun 28, 1948 |
Genre | Drama, Adventure, Crime, Comedy |
Director | David Lean |
Production country | United Kingdom |
Production companies | Cineguild, J. Arthur Rank Organisation |
Run time | 116 min. |
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.