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
5 people
Ivy Millais
Oliver Twist
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John McMahon
Fagin
Harry Royston
Bill Sykes
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Alma Taylor
Nancy
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Flora Morris
Rose Maylie
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Thomas Bentley Director · Charles Dickens Author
First release October 24, 1912 · Produced in United Kingdom
Production
Hepworth
Production
United Kingdom
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United Kingdom · October 24, 1912
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No release date listed for United States.
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