Oliver Twist [videorecording] a Diplomat Films production for United Productions and WGBH/Boston ; produced by Keith Thompson ; screenplay by Alan Bleasdale ; directed by Renny Rye.
Information from pre-release promotional materials. Videocassette release of the television miniseries. Based on the novel by Charles Dickens. Sam Smith, Robert Lindsay, Marc Warren, Michael Kitchen, Roger Lloyd Pack, Sophia Myles, Lindsay Duncan, Julie Walters, Tim Dutton, David Ross, Alun Armstrong, Andy Serkis, Annette Crosbie, Emily Woof.
Summary:
Oliver is a penniless orphan at the Parish Workhouse. After he is forced by the other boys to ask for more food, he is sold as an apprentice to a miserly undertaker. He runs away and is taken in by Fagin, a thief who is in league with a murderous pair determined to see that Oliver never inherits the fortune he deserves. Life twists and turns again for Oliver, landing him in alternately dangerous and hopeful circumstances.
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