Oliver Twist
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1933 | 80m | English
Popularity: 0.3 (history)
| Director: | William J. Cowen |
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| Writer: | Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Meehan |
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| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Feb 28, 1933 |
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| Director: | William J. Cowen |
| Writer: | Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Meehan |
| Genres: | Drama |
| Keywords | based on novel or book, pickpocket, orphanage, orphan, literary adaptation, 19th century |
| Production Companies | Monogram Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 29, 2026 Entered: Apr 25, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Dickie Moore | Oliver Twist |
| Irving Pichel | Fagin |
| William 'Stage' Boyd | Bill Sikes |
| Doris Lloyd | Nancy Sikes |
| Alec B. Francis | Mr. Brownlow |
| Barbara Kent | Rose Maylie |
| Sonny Ray | The Artful Dodger |
| George K. Arthur | Toby Crackit |
| George Nash | Charles Bates |
| Clyde Cook | Chitling |
| Lionel Belmore | Mr. Bumble |
| Tempe Pigott | Mrs. Corney |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| William J. Cowen | Director |
| Carl Pierson | Editor |
| Herbert Brenon | Production Supervisor |
| J. Roy Hunt | Director of Photography |
| Charles Dickens | Novel |
| Elizabeth Meehan | Screenplay, Dialogue |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| I.E. Chadwick | Producer |
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I don't know how many versions of this classic Dickens story I have seen (I was even in one on stage in the early 1980s) but I have to give this credit for being the only one, to date, that has made me laugh. The cherubic young Dickie Moore in the title role was seven or eight when he made this, and ... frequently he looks like he awaiting instructions from an off-screen parent before commencing his scene - more often than not with an hugely inappropriate smile, or grin, or both... The rest of the cast do a workmanlike job with this super story; Irving Pichel is quite convincing as the manipulative miser "Fagin", as is Sonny Ray with his wobbly hat, as the "Artful Dodger" and a suitably sinister William Boyd as the villainous "Sikes". Subsequent versions are grittier and darker, offering us a much more malevolent view of London at the very start of the Victorian era, but this has a certain charm to it that makes the brief, quite well (and eerily at times) stitched together, adaptation well worth a gander.