TY - GEN AU - Lean,David AU - Robert Newton AU - Alec Guinness AU - Kay Walsh AU - Francis L Sullivan AU - John Howard Davies AU - Henry Stephenson AU - Mary Clare AU - Anthony Newley AU - Josephine Stuart AU - Ralph Truman AU - Kathleen Harrison AU - Gibb McLaughlin AU - Amy Veness AU - Diana Dors AU - Frederick Lloyd TI - Oliver Twist AV - DVD 000738 PY - 1948/// CY - UK PB - Independent Producers KW - Adventure KW - Crime KW - Drama N2 - 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. This version of Oliver Twist is topped by Alec Guinness's masterly performance of arch-thug Fagin UR - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040662 ER -