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28 February 1933 (USA)
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An orphan boy in 1830's London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves. | add synopsis
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Dickie Moore | ... | Oliver Twist | |
| Irving Pichel | ... | Fagin | |
| William 'Stage' Boyd | ... | Bill Sikes | |
| Doris Lloyd | ... | Nancy Sikes | |
| Alec B. Francis | ... | Mr. Brownlow | |
| Barbara Kent | ... | Rose Maylie | |
| Sonny Ray | ... | The Artful Dodger | |
| George K. Arthur | ... | Toby Crackit | |
| George Nash | ... | Charles Bates | |
| Clyde Cook | ... | Chitfing | |
| Lionel Belmore | ... | Mr. Bumble | |
| Tempe Pigott | ... | Mrs. Corney | |
| Nelson McDowell | ... | Sowerberry | |
| Virginia Sale | ... | Mrs. Sowerberry | |
| Harry Holman | ... | Grimwig |
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While this film is not especially well-remembered today, and has been eclipsed by practically all of the later film versions of the Charles Dickens novel, it did begin a Hollywood "fad" for Dickens that lasted for about five years. It was followed by Great Expectations (1934) (a poorly reviewed and now forgotten version with Jane Wyatt and Phillips Holmes), the classic MGM all-star The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger (1935), Universal's Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) (with Claude Rains), the classic A Tale of Two Cities (1935) - another MGM Dickens blockbuster - and MGM's 1938 A Christmas Carol (1938) with Reginald Owen. There would be very few versions of Dickens from Hollywood after that; most films based on Dickens' books would be made by British studios. However, notable exceptions have been the many versions of "A Christmas Carol" produced for American television.
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Version of "The Further Adventures of Oliver Twist" (1980)
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A sincere,but atrociously acted and flatly staged film version of the book, with no authentic period flavor whatsoever. Dickie Moore is so syrupy sweet you want to slap him; Irving Pichel tries very hard but is just adequate as Fagin, as is Doris Lloyd as Nancy, but William (Stage) Boyd acts as if he thought he were doing one of those corny silent melodramas. Lionel Belmore (not to be confused with Lionel Barrymore) gives a very stereotypical performance as Mr. Bumble, and nobody else makes any kind of an impression whatever.
An embarrassment to the memory of a great author, and especially so when compared with so many other Dickens films.