OLIVER TWIST

• DICKENS ON FILM
• Venue: Guildhall Museum
• Rochester
• Date: Monday 22 June
• Time: 7.30pm [Doors open 7pm]
• Cost: £5
• Intro + post-film discussion
• Includes Free Glass of Wine

Year: 1948


Director: David Lean 

Cast: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Anthonly Newley 
  
Synopsis: Based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist is about an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. Oliver is taken in by the pickpocket and he joins a household of young boys who are trained to steal for their master.