Oliver Twist (1948)

Director: David Lean

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.

Cast

John Howard Davies

Oliver Twist

Robert Newton

Bill Sykes

Alec Guinness

Fagin

Kay Walsh

Nancy

Francis L. Sullivan

Mr. Bumble

Henry Stephenson

Mr. Brownlow

Mary Clare

Mrs. Corney

Anthony Newley

Artful Dodger

Ralph Truman

Monks

Michael Dear

Noah Claypole