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{en} Oliver Twist (USA, 1997), directed by Tony Bill, starring Richard Dreyfuss (Fagin), Elijah Wood (Dodger), David O'Hara (Bill), and Alex Trench (Oliver). <TV film> <see YouTube>

As in many film adaptations of this novel, Monks, Oliver's half-brother, is not in the film. There are other changes as well. The major one is that when Oliver is taken in by Fagin's gang he himself, and not the Widow Corney, is in possession of his mother's locket, and Oliver has come to London, not just to seek his fortune, but to discover his true identity. And, as in the musical and the 1968 film Oliver!, Nancy is murdered at London Bridge, not in her bedroom as in the novel, and Fagin is not sentenced to death but can escape.