
Oliver Twist
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.
Top Billed Cast

John Howard Davies
Oliver Twist

Robert Newton
Bill Sykes

Alec Guinness
Fagin

Kay Walsh
Nancy

Francis L. Sullivan
Mr. Bumble
Featured Crew
Stanley Haynes
Screenplay

David Lean
Director
Arnold Bax
Original Music Composer

Charles Dickens
Novel

David Lean
Screenplay
Jack Harris
Editor

Guy Green
Director of Photography

Ronald Neame
Producer
Dennis Van Thal
Casting
Margaret Furse
Costume Design
Gordon K. McCallum
Sound
Stanley Lambourne
Sound