Oliver Twist (1948)
Directed by David Lean
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
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The first half of the film feels like the best adaptation of Oliver Twist since David Lean.
El terror infantil –tan cercano al Oliver Twist, de David Lean; a La noche del cazador, de Charles Laughton, o a Posesión satánica, de Jack Clayton– tiene en el relato conjunto de Abrahamson y Emma Donoghue una variante perturbadora.