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Release Date: 1948

Cast: John Howard Davies, Michael Dear, Robert Newton, Amy Veness, Kay Walsh, Henry Stephenson, Francis L. Sullivan, Anthony Newley, Kathleen Harrison, Frederick Lloyd, Diana Dors, Gibb McLaughlin ...MORE

Cast: John Howard Davies, Michael Dear, Robert Newton, Amy Veness, Kay Walsh, Henry Stephenson, Francis L. Sullivan, Anthony Newley, Kathleen Harrison, Frederick Lloyd, Diana Dors, Gibb McLaughlin, Ralph Truman, Mary Clare, Josephine Stuart, Alec Guinness ...LESS

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Oliver Twist (1948) is the second of David Lean's two film adaptations of Charles Dickens novels. Following the success of his 1946 version of Great Expectations, Lean re-assembled much of the same team for his adaptation of Dicken's 1838 novel, including producers Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan, cinematographer Guy Green, designer John Bryan and editor Jack Harris. Lean's then-wife, Kay Walsh, who had collaborated on the screenplay for Great Expectations, played the role of Nancy. John Howard Davies was cast as Oliver, while Alec Guinness portrayed Fagin. In 1999,the British Film... MORE

Oliver Twist (1948) is the second of David Lean's two film adaptations of Charles Dickens novels. Following the success of his 1946 version of Great Expectations, Lean re-assembled much of the same team for his adaptation of Dicken's 1838 novel, including producers Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan, cinematographer Guy Green, designer John Bryan and editor Jack Harris. Lean's then-wife, Kay Walsh, who had collaborated on the screenplay for Great Expectations, played the role of Nancy. John Howard Davies was cast as Oliver, while Alec Guinness portrayed Fagin. In 1999,the British Film Institute placed it at 46th in its list of the top 100 British films. A woman in labour makes her way to a parish workhouse and dies giving birth to Oliver Twist (John Howard Davies). As the years go by, Oliver and the rest of the child inmates suffer from the callous indifference of the officials in charge: beadle Mr. Bumble (Francis L. Sullivan) and matron Mrs. Corney (Mary Clare). At the age of nine, the hungry children draw straws; Oliver loses and has to ask for a second helping of gruel ("Please sir, I want some more"). For his impudence, he is promptly apprenticed to the undertaker Mr. LESS