Overview

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.

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Cast

George C. Scott

Fagin

Tim Curry

Bill Sikes

Michael Hordern

Mr. Brownlow

Timothy West

Mr. Bumble

Eileen Atkins

Mrs. Mann

Cherie Lunghi

Nancy

Oliver Cotton

Monks

Lysette Anthony

Oliver's Mother

Timothy Spall

1st Constable