An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.

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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