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 next film, 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, play...
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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 next film, 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.
Oliver Twist (John Howard Davies) is born in a workhouse to an unwed mother who dies in childbirth. The years go by and Oliver is regularly mistreated by Mr. Bumble (Francis L. Sullivan), caretaker of the workhouse. At the age of nine, the hungry Oliver asks for a second helping of gruel ("Please sir, I want some more") and for his actions is promptly sold as an apprentice to Mr. Sowerberry (Gibb McLaughlin). Mistreated again there, he escapes and runs away to London, and is picked up there in the streets by the Artful...
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