TY - BOOK AU - Lean,David AU - Alec, Guinness. AU - Francis L Sullivan AU - Henry Stephenson AU - John Howard Davies AU - Kay Walsh AU - Mary Clare AU - Robert Newton TI - Oliver Twist AV - DVD 002778 PY - 1948/// CY - UK PB - Independent Producers KW - Crime KW - Drama KW - Adventure N1 - 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; Charles Dickens 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. 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 Alec Guinness's masterly performance of arch-thug Fagin UR - http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0040662/ ER -