When Fagin informs Sykes, the latter becomes enraged and murders her, mistakenly believing that she has betrayed him. The suspicious Fagin, however, has had the Dodger follow her. Brownlow offers a reward for Oliver's return, contacts the gentleman and promises to deliver Oliver the next day. Nancy feels pangs of guilt and, seeing a poster in which Mr. Corney ( Mary Clare) (now Bumble's domineering wife) Monks buys from them the only thing that can identify Oliver's parentage, a locket containing his mother's portrait.īy chance, Fagin's associate, the vicious Bill Sykes ( Robert Newton), and Sykes' kind-hearted prostitute girlfriend (and former Fagin pupil) Nancy ( Kay Walsh) run into Oliver on the street and forcibly take him back to Fagin. Meanwhile, Fagin is visited by the mysterious Monks ( Ralph Truman), who has a strong interest in Oliver. Brownlow and the loving housekeeper, Mrs. Oliver experiences the kind of happy life he has never had before, under the care of Mr.
Brownlow takes a liking to the boy, and gives him a home. Their attempt is detected, but it is Oliver who is chased through the streets by a mob and arrested. Brownlow ( Henry Stephenson), a rich, elderly gentleman. Fagin sends Oliver to watch and learn as the Dodger and another boy try to rob Mr. The Artful Dodger ( Anthony Newley), a skilled young pickpocket, notices him and takes him to Fagin ( Alec Guinness), an old Jew who trains children to be pickpockets. However, when another worker, Noah, maligns his dead mother, Oliver flies into a rage and attacks him, earning the orphan a whipping. Sowerberry ( Gibb McLaughlin), from whom he receives somewhat better treatment. At the age of nine, the hungry children draw straws Oliver loses and has to ask for a second helping of gruel ("Please sir, can I have some more?").įor his impudence, he is promptly apprenticed to the undertaker Mr. As the years go by, Oliver and the rest of the child inmates suffer from the callous indifference of the officials in charge: beadle Mr. A young woman in labour makes her way to a parish workhouse and dies after giving birth to a boy, who is systematically named Oliver Twist ( John Howard Davies) by the workhouse authorities.
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