Oliver Twist (1916 film)

Oliver Twist

Directed by	James Young W. S. Van Dyke (ass't director) Dudley Blanchard (ass't director)
Produced by	Jesse Lasky
Written by	Charles Dickens (novel Oliver Twist) James Young (scenario) Winthrop Ames (scenario)
Based on	Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Starring	Marie Doro Tully Marshall Hobart Bosworth Raymond Hatton
Cinematography	Harold Rosson
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	December 10, 1916
Running time	5 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent film English intertitles

Oliver Twist is a lost 1916 silent film drama produced by Jesse Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by James Young. It is based on the famous novel, Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens and the 1912 Broadway stage version of the novel.

Marie Doro had played Oliver on Broadway in 1912 to much acclaim and was brought in by Lasky to reprise her role in this film. In fact, the main reason this film was made was to showcase Doro rather than Dickens. In the play, the parts of Nancy, Fagin and Bill Sykes were played by Constance Collier, Nat C. Goodwin and Lyn Harding respectively. Elsie Jane Wilson who had a supporting part in the play is Nancy in the film. Wilson and Doro are the only players from the play to appear in this film.

Four film versions had been made prior to this film: in 1907, 1909 and two in 1912, the year of Doro's stage success. A later 1922 silent version starred Lon Chaney and Jackie Coogan.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Cast

Marie Doro - Oliver Twist
Tully Marshall - Fagin
Hobart Bosworth - Bill Sykes
Raymond Hatton - Jack Hawkins, "The Artful Dodger"
James Neill - Mr. Brownlow
Edythe Chapman - Mrs. Brownlow
Elsie Jane Wilson - Nancy
Harry Rattenbury - Mr. Bumble
Carl Stockdale - Monks
W. S. Van Dyke - Charles Dickens

References

↑ Oliver Twist at silentera.com
↑ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c.1988
↑ Oliver Twist as produced on Broadway at both the New Amsterdam and Empire Theatres, February 26, 1912 to May 1912; IBDb.com

External links

Oliver Twist at the Internet Movie Database
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still from the film left to right: Marie Doro, Tully Marshall, Hobart Bosworth, Raymond Hatton

Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist

Characters	Oliver Twist Bill Sikes Fagin Mr. Brownlow Nancy Rose Maylie Monks The Artful Dodger Charley Bates Mr. Sowerberry

Film adaptations	Oliver Twist (1909) Oliver Twist (1912) Oliver Twist (1916) Oliver Twist (1919) Oliver Twist (1922) Oliver Twist (1933) Oliver Twist (1948) Chitti Tammudu (1962) Oliver! (1968) Oliver Twist (1982) Las Aventuras de Oliver Twist (1987) Oliver Twist (1997) Oliver Twist (2005)

Film retellings	Oliver & Company (1988) Twisted (1996) Twist (2003) Boy Called Twist (2004)

TV adaptations	Oliver Twist (1982 TV film) Oliver Twist (1985 TV miniseries) Saban's Adventures of Oliver Twist (1996 TV series) Oliver Twist (1999 miniseries) Oliver Twist (2007 miniseries)

Play	Oliver! (1960)

Songs	"As Long as He Needs Me" "Consider Yourself" D'banj's 2012 song "Food, Glorious Food" "I'd Do Anything" "Oliver!" "Oom-Pah-Pah" Vaughn De Leath's 1921 song "Where Is Love?" "You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two"

Related	Escape of the Artful Dodger (2001 TV series retelling) Fagin the Jew (2003 graphic novel) Oliver and the Artful Dodger (1972 TV film) I'd Do Anything (2008 TV series)

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