Oliver Twist
feature film, silent, 1922.
DIRECTED BY: Frank Lloyd
CAST:
Jackie Coogan (Oliver Twist),
James A. Marcus (gdin. Bumble),
Aggie Herring (gđa. Corney),
Edouard Trebaol (Artful Dodger),
Lon Chaney (Fagin)
SCRIPT:
Frank Lloyd,
Harry Weil (prema istoimenom romanu Charlesa Dickensa)
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Glen MacWilliams,
Robert Martin
Synopsis:
This is a silent film adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel about Oliver Twist, a boy who grew up in an orphanage. His mother died in childbirth and he, always hungry, was forced to start working from an early age under very harsh conditions. Eventually, he manages to run away to London and there meets an older boy who offers him food and lodging. However, it turns out the boy is a member of a gang of kids who work as pickpockets for a scoundrel called Fagin…
digital, b/w, 98 min