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Oliver Twist [videorecording] / a Diplomat Films production for United Productions and WGBH/Boston ; written by Alan Bleasdale ; screenplay by Alan Bleasdale ; produced by Keith Thompson ; directed by Renny Rye.

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FilmPublisher number: WG33139 | WGBHSeries: Masterpiece theatre (Television program)Publication details: [United States] : WGBH : Distributed by Carlton International Media Ltd., 2004.Description: 3 videodiscs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:

1593751508

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Title on container: Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist

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DVD PN 1997 .O45 2004

Cast: Michael Kitchen, Julie Walters, Keira Knightley, Sam Smith, Robert Lindsay.Summary: Oliver is a penniless orphan at the Parish Workhouse. After he is forced by the other boys to ask for more food, he is sold as an apprentice to a miserly undertaker. He runs away and is taken in by Fagin, a thief who is in league with a murderous pair determined to see that Oliver never inherits the fortune he deserves. Life twists and turns again for Oliver, landing him in alternately dangerous and hopeful circumstances.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Storms Research Center Main Collection	DVD PN 1997 .O45 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	98627891

Originally broadcast by ITV in 1999.

Based on the novel by Charles Dickens.

Special features: Printable materials for educators; access to the ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre web site.

Michael Kitchen, Julie Walters, Keira Knightley, Sam Smith, Robert Lindsay.

Oliver is a penniless orphan at the Parish Workhouse. After he is forced by the other boys to ask for more food, he is sold as an apprentice to a miserly undertaker. He runs away and is taken in by Fagin, a thief who is in league with a murderous pair determined to see that Oliver never inherits the fortune he deserves. Life twists and turns again for Oliver, landing him in alternately dangerous and hopeful circumstances.