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Oliver Twist

1948

David Lean

Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Francis L. Sullivan, John Howard Davies ...

7.4

3,261

Drama Based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist is about an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. Oliver is taken in by the pickpocket and he joins a household of young boys who are trained to steal for their master. This version of Oliver Twist is topped by Alec Guinness's masterly performance of arch-thug Fagin.

	Media	Author	Review
		David Parkinson Empire	"When Lean does subjugate his ego to Dickens's genius, this becomes a powerful study of depravity, misery and cruelty..."
		Variety Staff Variety	"From every angle this is a superb achievement."
		Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"One of the finest screen translations of a literary classic ever made."
		Adrian Turner Radio Times	"This masterly adaptation of the Dickens novel by director David Lean brims with unforgettable scenes and performances, especially Alec Guinness's Fagin"

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