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Oliver Twist is a american film of genre Drama directed by Frank Lloyd released in USA on 30 october 1922 with Lon Chaney
Oliver Twist (1922)
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Add to a movie listOliver Twist is a 1922 silent film adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist featuring Lon Chaney as Fagin and Jackie Coogan as Oliver. Directed by Frank Lloyd.
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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.Actors
Lon Chaney
(Fagin)
James A. Marcus
(Mr. Bumble)
Jackie Coogan
(Oliver Twist)
Aggie Herring
(Mrs. Corney)
Lionel Belmore
(Mr. Brownlow)
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