10 December 1916 Drama 50 mins
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
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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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.
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