10 December 1916 Drama 50 mins
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.
Watch the official Oliver Twist 1916 trailer in HD below.
Marie Doro as Oliver Twist
Edythe Chapman as Mrs. Brownlow
Tully Marshall as Fagin
Raymond Hatton as The Artful Dodger
Hobart Bosworth as Bill Sykes
James Neill as Mr. Brownlow
Elsie Jane Wilson as Nancy
Harry L. Rattenberry as Mr. Bumble
Carl Stockdale as Monks
W.S. Van Dyke as Charles Dickens
James Young Director
James Young Writer
Winthrop Ames Writer
Charles Dickens Novel
Harold Rosson Director of Photography
United States 10 December 1916
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More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from Oliver Twist:
Deutscher Trailer der DVD von NewKSM.
Unused / unissued material. Title reads: "Oliver Twist". Very early silent film version of Charles Dickens' classic novel telling the tale in the following instalments: ...
fairly low resolution and moderate sound quality but at least the speed is right!
Silent adaptation of the novel written by Charles Dickens with Jackie Coogan in the titular role.
Oliver's mother a penniless outcast died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse later apprenticed to an uncaring undertaker ...
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