Oliver Twist
“8 Great Reels that make you ask for more.”
About Oliver Twist
Nine-year-old Oliver Twist asks Mr. Bumble for more gruel and is hired out to an undertaker. He runs off to London, falls in with the Artful Dodger, and is trained by Fagin. Mr. Brownlow takes him in. Bill Sikes kidnaps him back.
Cast & crew
More about Oliver Twist
Frank Lloyd directed and co-wrote it with Harry Weil, from Dickens's 1838 novel. Sol Lesser produced it. Robert Martin photographed it. Irene Morra edited. Walter J. Israel designed the costumes. Interiors were shot at Robert Brunton Studios in Hollywood. First National released it. Jackie Coogan plays Oliver. Lon Chaney plays Fagin. Wikidata gives 74 minutes. A period line used with the film was "8 Great Reels that make you ask for more." Another line quoted Coogan films as the sort Will Hays said the world needed.
Themes
Making
Lloyd built the London streets on the Brunton stages in Hollywood, with Chaney in the Fagin makeup.
Reviews
The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times each put it among the best pictures of 1922.
Look
Robert Martin photographed the workhouse, the London streets, and Chaney's Fagin.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times each named it among the best pictures of 1922.
- Coogan had played The Kid for Chaplin the year before. Chaney played Quasimodo the next year.
- A still shows Fagin teaching the boys to pick pockets.
- A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Scenes
- Oliver asks for a second helping and is sent out.
- Fagin shows the boys how to take a handkerchief.
Influenced by
- Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist (1838)
