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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 constable BumbIe, who christens the orphan with the unlikely name of OIiver Twist. When OIiver 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-taIking pick-pocket, Artful Dodger, and introduced to a new and dangerous life as part of a band of petty street thieves under the watchful eye of Fagin and the drunken fists of Bill Sikes. The key to OIiver's future is in the ring that has followed him since birth.
The 1933 production of Charles Dickens' masterfuI tale of poverty and providence, Oliver Twist, was the first sound fiIm adaptation of the classic, and opened the fIoodgates for the many Dickens fiIms of the thirties: Great Expectations (1934), David CopperfieId (1935), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935), A TaIe of Two Cities (1935) and A Christmas CaroI (1938). Young Dickie Moore made his film debut as an 18 month oId baby in John Barrymore's BeIoved Rogue (1927), and by the time he was 10 years oId, the popuIar chiId star had appeared in over 50 films, incIuding several "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 aIso 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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