David Lean's Oliver Twist

Based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist is about an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. Oliver is taken in by the pickpocket and he joins a household of young boys who are trained to steal for their master. The boys thieving activities and others who desire to cash in on Oliver's fortune by criminals activities leads to murder and community outrage as they are hunted down. This version of Oliver Twist is topped by Alex Guinness' masterly performance of arch-thug Fagin. [IMDB - Jenny Evans] This UNCUT release includes Dolby Digital Stereo in ENGLISH with optional English or Chinese subtitles. The original Black and White is especially effective at conveying the bleak, nightmarish quality of Dickins' Victorian England.