Oliver Twist movie adaptions

[ajo]

Regarding the number and quality of /Oliver Twist/ movie storeys/versions/adaptations...
IMDB says "Displaying 108 results for "oliver twist"" albeit some of them are segments of a series and a few are plays on words such as /Oliver's Twist/ and /Olive or Twist/.

Go to IMDB, search for "oliver twist" and select to see all results for titles to see the entire list.

That list also includes such titles as /Twisted/ but leaves out /Boy Called Twist/.

Then there are other titles of the genre such as /August Rush/...

[Pompey Bum]

Welcome to the site, Ajo.

[kev67]

I finished watching the 1948 David Lean version last night. I was slightly disappointed with it, especially compared with the David Lean version of Great Expectations. The kids who played Oliver and the Artful Dodger were great. It was the adult cast I did not rate. I didn't like Alec Guiness's portrayal of Fagin. They gave him a ridiculous nose. The actor who played Bill Sikes was not scary or realistic enough for me. Nancy was tamed down a bit. She was made a bit older than she is in the book, a thief and not a prostitute, and a bit better looking. In one of the earlier chapters, there is a magistrate named Mr Fang. In the book, this chapter was quite comic. A good comic actor could have made that scene rather funny, but that did not come across in the film. All in all, I though the Roman Polanski film was better.

[Phillise]

I finished watching the 1948 David Lean version last night. I was slightly disappointed with it, especially compared with the David Lean version of Great Expectations. The kids who played Oliver and the Artful Dodger were great. It was the adult cast I did not rate. I didn't like Alec Guiness's portrayal of Fagin. They gave him a ridiculous nose. The actor who played Bill Sikes was not scary or realistic enough for me. Nancy was tamed down a bit. She was made a bit older than she is in the book, a thief and not a prostitute, and a bit better looking. In one of the earlier chapters, there is a magistrate named Mr Fang. In the book, this chapter was quite comic. A good comic actor could have made that scene rather funny, but that did not come across in the film. All in all, I though the Roman Polanski film was better.

The 1982 version has a scene with Fang at the trial of the Artful Dodger. It is quite comical, though it's pity he earlier scene with Fang at Oliver's trial was left out.