An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.

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Cast

Melvyn Hayes

Artful Dodger

Max Adrian

Fagin

George Curzon

Mr. Brownlow

Peter Vaughan

Bill Sikes

Carmel McSharry

Nancy

John Carson

Monks

Willoughby Goddard

Mr. Bumble

Alan Rothwell

Charley Bates