Overview
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.
Cast
- George C. Scott as Fagin
- Tim Curry as Bill Sikes
- Richard Charles as Oliver Twist
- Michael Hordern as Mr. Brownlow
- Timothy West as Mr. Bumble
- Eileen Atkins as Mrs. Mann
- Cherie Lunghi as Nancy
- Oliver Cotton as Monks
- Lysette Anthony as Oliver's Mother
- Timothy Spall as 1st Constable