OLIVER TWIST: THE CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1948
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Expressionistic noir photography suffuses David Lean's Oliver Twist with a nightmarish quality, fitting its bleak, industrial setting. In Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way form cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home. Here Alec Guinness is the quintessential Fagin, his controversial performance fully restored in Criterion's new digital transfer.
• Cast: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan, John Howard Davies, Henry Stephenson, Mary Clare, Anthony Newley, Josephine Stuart, Ralph Truman, Kathleen Harrison, Gibb McLaughlin, Amy Veness, Diana Dors, Frederick Lloyd, Ivor Barnard, Maurice Denham, W.G. Fay, Michael Dear, Henry Edwards, Hattie Jacques, Michael Ripper, Peter Bull, Deidre Doyle, Kenneth Downey, Edie Martin, Fay Middleton, Graveley Edwards, John Potter, Maurice Jones, Betty Paul, Erik Chitty, Arthur Mullard, Nosher Powell, Dennis Wyndham, David Lean, Charles Dickens, Stanley Haynes, Eric Ambler, Ronald Neame, Guy Green, Jack Harris, Arnold Bax
• Director: David Lean
• Runtime: 1:56
• Company: Criterion
• Media Format: Movie