Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

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1933 · 80 min · ★ 5.1 · Drama

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.

Directed by William J. Cowen · Written by Elizabeth Meehan

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