1948·Drama·2h 1m
7.0
★
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.
Directed by David Lean
child abuse
based on novel or book
pickpocket
victorian england
black and white
orphan
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Cast
John Howard Davies
Oliver Twist
Robert Newton
Bill Sykes
Alec Guinness
Fagin
Kay Walsh
Nancy
Francis L. Sullivan
Mr. Bumble
Henry Stephenson
Mr. Brownlow
Mary Clare
Mrs. Corney
Anthony Newley
Artful Dodger
Ralph Truman
Monks
Diana Dors
Charlotte
Josephine Stuart
Oliver's Mother
Kathleen Harrison
Mrs Sowerberry
Crew
David Lean
Director
David Lean
Screenplay
Guy Green
Director of Photography
Ronald Neame
Producer
Charles Dickens
Novel
George Pollock
Assistant Director
Popular Reviews
58 reviews
Vita
7.0★ · 03/06/26
watched it on English lesson. That was actually great considering this movie is almost 80 years. 7/10.
watched it on English lesson. That was actually great considering this movie is almost 80 years. 7/10.
StorminPRO
10.0★ · 10/14/25
It's a shame that the music version is better known then this one, because this one's way better.
It's a shame that the music version is better known then this one, because this one's way better.
Bisous
7.0★ · 09/22/25
l’Angleterre a l’ancienne c harr
l’Angleterre a l’ancienne c harr
Sean
7.0★ · 07/17/25
I figured there was no better man than David Lean to introduce me to this story by Charles Dickens (certainly a better pick than Polanski), as he was successful in delivering a Dickens adaptation I loved just 2 years earlier, Great Expectations, and although this wasn’t nearly as good as that, there’s still a lot to appreciate here and I see why it’s a classic. Alec Guinness absolutely steals the show as Fagin, the makeup was incredible and Alec made great use of it giving me my favorite performance of the film. Aside from him Robert Newton was especially good in that third act and I liked Henry Stephenson too. Narratively it works, I found the first 40 minutes pretty slow but it definitely found its footing around the hour mark and I was all in from there. It may not compare to most of Lean’s other work but I’m glad it exists and even happier that I watched it, from the impressive child acting to just seeing Lean’s vision with the story, I had a pretty good time with this.
I figured there was no better man than David Lean to introduce me to this story by Charles Dickens (certainly a better pick than Polanski), as he was successful in delivering a Dickens adaptation I loved just 2 years earlier, Great Expectations, and although this wasn’t nearly as good as that, there’s still a lot to appreciate here and I see why it’s a classic. Alec Guinness absolutely steals the show as Fagin, the makeup was incredible and Alec made great use of it giving me my favorite performance of the film. Aside from him Robert Newton was especially good in that third act and I liked Henry Stephenson too. Narratively it works, I found the first 40 minutes pretty slow but it definitely found its footing around the hour mark and I was all in from there. It may not compare to most of Lean’s other work but I’m glad it exists and even happier that I watched it, from the impressive child acting to just seeing Lean’s vision with the story, I had a pretty good time with this.
Duda Mitchell
4.0★ · 03/31/25
credo que filme chato
credo que filme chato