![]() ![]() John Potter as Charley Bates (character credited as Charlie Bates).Peter Bull as Landlord of "Three Cripples" tavern.Bedwin, his search for love ending in fulfilment. Oliver is happily reunited with his newly found grandfather and Mrs. For their involvement in the Monks' scheme, Mr. He was trying to ensure his inheritance Oliver, it turns out, is Mr. Monks' part in the proceedings is discovered, and he is arrested. Fagin and his other associates are rounded up. Brownlow and the authorities rescue Oliver. Clambering over the rooftops, and with climbing rope hung around his neck, Sykes is shot by one of the mob and is accidentally hanged as he loses his footing. The killing brings down the wrath of the public on the gang – particularly Sykes who attempts to make his escape by taking Oliver hostage. When Fagin informs Sykes, the latter becomes enraged and murders her, believing that she has betrayed him. The suspicious Fagin, however, has had the Dodger follow her. Brownlow offers a reward for Oliver's return, contacts the gentleman and promises to deliver Oliver the next day. Nancy feels pangs of guilt and, seeing a poster in which Mr. Corney (now Bumble's domineering wife) Monks buys from them the only thing that can identify Oliver's parentage, a locket containing his mother's portrait.īy chance, Fagin's associate, the vicious Bill Sykes ( Robert Newton), and Sykes' kind-hearted girlfriend (and former Fagin pupil) Nancy ( Kay Walsh) run into Oliver on the street and forcibly take him back to Fagin. Meanwhile, Fagin is visited by the mysterious Monks ( Ralph Truman), who has a strong interest in Oliver. Brownlow and the loving housekeeper, Mrs. Oliver experiences the kind of happy life he has never had before, under the care of Mr. Brownlow takes a liking to the boy and gives him a home. Their attempt is detected, and Oliver is chased through the streets by a mob and arrested. Brownlow ( Henry Stephenson), a rich, elderly gentleman. Fagin sends Oliver to watch and learn as the Dodger and another boy try to rob Mr. The Artful Dodger ( Anthony Newley), a skilled young pickpocket, notices him and takes him to Fagin ( Alec Guinness), an old Jew who trains children to be pickpockets. However, when another worker, Noah, maligns his dead mother, Oliver flies into a rage and attacks him, earning the orphan a whipping. Sowerberry ( Gibb McLaughlin), from whom he receives somewhat better treatment. When Oliver is nine, the hungry children draw straws Oliver loses and has to ask for a second helping of gruel: "Please sir, I want some more."įor his impudence, he is promptly apprenticed to the undertaker Mr. As the years go by, Oliver and the rest of the child inmates suffer from the callous indifference of the officials in charge: beadle Mr. In 2005 it was named in the BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14.Ī young woman in labour makes her way to a parish workhouse and dies after giving birth to a boy, who is systematically named Oliver Twist ( John Howard Davies) by the workhouse authorities. ![]() In 1999, the British Film Institute placed it at 46th in its list of the top 100 British films. John Howard Davies was cast as Oliver, while Alec Guinness portrayed Fagin and Robert Newton played Bill Sykes ( Bill Sikes in the novel). Lean's then-wife, Kay Walsh, who had collaborated on the screenplay for Great Expectations, played the role of Nancy. Following his 1946 version of Great Expectations, Lean re-assembled much of the same team for his adaptation of Dickens' 1838 novel, including producers Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan, cinematographer Guy Green, designer John Bryan and editor Jack Harris. Oliver Twist is a 1948 British film and the second of David Lean's two film adaptations of Charles Dickens novels. ![]()
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