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.

• DirectorDavid Lean
• Release28 June 1948
• Genre
  Drama / Adventure
• Duration1h 56m
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• Rate
  

  7.504
  237 reviews
• Productions

  Cineguild, J. Arthur Rank Organisation