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
- Melvyn Hayes as Artful Dodger
- Max Adrian as Fagin
- George Curzon as Mr. Brownlow
- Bruce Prochnik as Oliver Twist
- Peter Vaughan as Bill Sikes
- Carmel McSharry as Nancy
- John Carson as Monks
- Willoughby Goddard as Mr. Bumble
- Gay Cameron as Rose Maylie
- Lloyd Pearson as Dr. Losberne