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{en} Oliver Twist [1] (USA, 1922), directed by Frank Lloyd, starring Lon Chaney and Jackie Coogan. <silent film> <see YouTube (full movie)>
An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Oliver's mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring undertaker, and eventually is taken in by a gang of thieves who befriend him for their own purposes. All the while, there are secrets from Oliver's family history waiting to come to light. <BoyActors>
Jackie Coogan and Lon Chaney were at the height of their careers during the filming.
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- Film Studies--1920s
- Film Studies--American
- 1922, Top Films
- Dickens, Charles (1812-1870), writer
- 1914 Coogan, Jackie (actor) USA
- 1883 Chaney, Lon (actor) USA
- 1905 Trebaol, Edouard (actor) USA
- 1903 Sargent, Lewis (actor) USA
- Oliver Twist (film subject)
- Child Labor (film subject)
- Street Children (film subject)
- Children (film subject)
- Orphan (film subject)
- Child Abuse (film subject)
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