#Oliver twist artful dodger plus
The star of the American edition was Jackie Coogan, eight years old and already a seasoned performer with eight pictures under his belt (including The Kid, the Charles Chaplin dramedy that made him a star) plus his own company, Jackie Coogan Productions, to produce some of his films. The busiest year for Oliver Twist movies was 1922, when versions from both Germany and Hollywood reached the screen. Ditto for Carol Reed's 1968 musical Oliver!, based on the London and Broadway stage hit and starring Mark Lester as the eponymous kid. Animations and several TV versions, including Tony Bill's 1997 production with Richard Dreyfuss as Fagin and Alex Trench as Oliver, have also entered the sweepstakes. The earliest adaptations appear to have been Vitagraph shorts in 19, followed by a French version in 1910, an Italian one in 1911, an American feature in 1912, a British feature in 1913, a Paramount release in 1916, a Hungarian edition in 1919, and German and Hollywood versions in 1922 - and that list accounts for the silent-film era alone! Among the many later adaptations, standouts include the 1948 classic by David Lean, with Alec Guinness as Fagin and John Howard Davies as Oliver, and the beautifully rendered 2005 edition by Roman Polanski, with Ben Kingsley as Fagin and Barney Clark as the title character. Share Oliver Twist, first published in 1838, is one of Charles Dickens's most entertaining and popular novels, so it's not surprising that moviemakers have turned to it frequently over the years.
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