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23 March 1982 (USA) moreTagline:
A Compelling New Version of the Great Victorian ClassicPlot:
The classic Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets. | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy. moreUser Comments:
One of the better film adaptations of the Dickens novel moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | George C. Scott | ... | Fagin |
 | Tim Curry | ... | Bill Sikes |
 | Michael Hordern | ... | Mr. Brownlow |
| Timothy West | ... | Mr. Bumble |
| Eileen Atkins | ... | Mrs. Mann |
| Cherie Lunghi | ... | Nancy |
| Oliver Cotton | ... | Monks |
| Richard Charles | ... | Oliver Twist |
 | Lysette Anthony | ... | Oliver's Mother |
| Eleanor David | ... | Rose Maylie |
| Philip Locke | ... | Mr. Sowerberry |
| Ann Beach | ... | Mrs. Sowerberry |
| Artro Morris | ... | Mr. Giles |
| John Barrard | ... | Dr. Losborne |
| Brenda Cowling | ... | Mrs. Bedwin |
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Elstree Film Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UKFun Stuff
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This film was made for and premiered on US television, but it was released theatrically in some overseas territories. moreQuotes:
Noah Claypole: [Sowerberry has handed Claypoole mourning clothes, instructing him to give them to Oliver] But these are funeral clothes! You promised me the job of silent mourner!Mr. Sowerberry: I never did. Besides, he has a much better face for it than you. He looks so sad.
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This seldom-seen television movie from the early eighties does the best of any adaptation(up to that time)of capturing the dispair and wretchedness of life for the poor in 19th century London. George C. Scott's Fagin is oily and vile, and Tim Curry's Sikes is chillingly psychotic. The sets and photography convey a sense of grim poverty and desolation all but absent from most versions. Dickens wrote a Victorian horror story of abuse, starvation, and isolation, and this film does his grim novel justice.