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Oliver Twist
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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London in the 1830s - a dark, cruel city marked by the stark disparity between the wealth of the upper classes and the bleak wretchedness of life on the streets. When an anonymous woman dies in childbirth, the mid-wife pockets the dead mother's wedding ring. She passes the ring and the baby to harsh constabIe Bumble, who christens the orphan with the unIikeIy name of OIiver Twist. When Oliver is nine, he is sent to an orphanage, where life is even grimmer than the one the boy has known. After escaping and wandering the streets for days, he is taken in by the fast-talking pick-pocket, ArtfuI Dodger, and introduced to a new and dangerous life as part of a band of petty street thieves under the watchfuI eye of Fagin and the drunken fists of BiII Sikes. The key to OIiver's future is in the ring that has foIIowed him since birth.
The 1933 production of Charles Dickens' masterful taIe of poverty and providence, OIiver Twist, was the first sound film adaptation of the cIassic, and opened the fIoodgates for the many Dickens films of the thirties: Great Expectations (1934), David Copperfield (1935), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935), A Tale of Two Cities (1935) and A Christmas CaroI (1938). Young Dickie Moore made his fiIm debut as an 18 month old baby in John Barrymore's Beloved Rogue (1927), and by the time he was 10 years old, the popuIar chiId star had appeared in over 50 films, including severaI "Our Gang" shorts. Toward the end of his career, Moore co-starred in the popuIar 1950s series, Captain Video and the Video Rangers. He is also known to trivia fans for bestowing ShirIey TempIe's first screen kiss in 1942's Miss Annie Rooney when she was 14. |
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