Oliver Twist (1948 film)

Oliver Twist 1948 is the second of David Leans two film adaptations of Charles Dickens novels. Following the success of his 1946 version of Great Expectations, Lean reassembled much of the same team for his adaptation of Dickens 1838 novel, including producers Ronald Neame and Anthony HavelockAllan, cinematographer Guy Green, designer John Bryan and editor Jack Harris. Leans thenwife, Kay Walsh, who had collaborated on the screenplay for Great Expectations, played the role of Nancy. John Howard Davies was cast as Oliver, while Alec Guinness portrayed Fagin.

A 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. 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. Bumble Francis L. Sullivan and matron Mrs. Corney Mary Clare. At the age of nine, the hungry children draw straws Oliver loses and has to ask for a second helping of gruel Please sir, I want some more.For his impudence, he is promptly apprenticed to the undertaker Mr. Sowerberry Gibb McLaughlin, from whom he receives somewhat better treatment. However, when another worker maligns his dead mother, Oliver flies into a rage and attacks him, earning the orphan a whipping. ........

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