# Oliver Twist (1948)

> David Lean turns Dickens’s orphan’s escape from workhouse cruelty and criminal exploitation into a haunting, visually monumental portrait of Victorian injustice.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/5988

## Facts

- Runtime: 121 min
- Genres: Drama, Adventure, Crime, Comedy
- Director: David Lean
- Cast: John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan, Henry Stephenson, Mary Clare, Anthony Newley
- TMDB rating: 7.6/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040662/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: moderate
- Mood: bleak, haunting, compassionate, classic cinema night, literature adaptation marathon

## Synopsis

A young orphan's journey through the dark underbelly of Victorian London reveals the strength of the human spirit.

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- [An Inspector Calls (1954)](https://ember.film/movie/10925)
- [A Tale of Two Cities (1935)](https://ember.film/movie/10721)
- [Scrooge (1951)](https://ember.film/movie/7596)
- [Richard III (1955)](https://ember.film/movie/28179)
- [Nicholas Nickleby (2002)](https://ember.film/movie/18056)
- [Oliver! (1968)](https://ember.film/movie/10776)
- [Les Misérables (1998)](https://ember.film/movie/2546)

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