Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
The story
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.
- child abuse
- based on novel or book
- pickpocket
- victorian england
- black and white
- orphan
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Francis L. Sullivan — Mr. Bumble
- Henry Stephenson — Mr. Brownlow
- Mary Clare — Mrs. Corney
- Anthony Newley — Artful Dodger
- Ralph Truman — Monks
- Michael Dear — Noah Claypole
- Diana Dors — Charlotte
- Josephine Stuart — Oliver's Mother
- Kathleen Harrison — Mrs Sowerberry
- Gibb McLaughlin — Mr. Sowerberry
- Amy Veness — Mrs. Bedwin
- Directed
- David Lean
- Written
- David Lean, Stanley Haynes
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 258 ratings
- Studio
- Cineguild, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
