Oliver Twist (1933)

“Oliver Twist“ is a 1933 American film directed by William J. Cowen. It is an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s popular novel with the same name and was the first sound version of the classic. It stars Irving Pichel as Fagin, Dickie Moore as Oliver, Doris Lloyd as Nancy, and William “Stage“ Boyd as Bill Sikes. Pichel played Fagin without resorting to any mannerisms which could be construed as offensive. An orphan boy in 1830’s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of t