Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Oliver Twist [videorecording] / a Diplomat Films production for United Productions and WGBH/Boston ; written by Alan Bleasdale ; screenplay by Alan Bleasdale ; produced by Keith Thompson ; directed by Renny Rye.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : WGBH : Distributed by Carlton International Media Ltd., 2004.

Description:

3 videodiscs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Oliver is a penniless orphan at the Parish Workhouse. After he is forced by the other boys to ask for more food, he is sold as an apprentice to a miserly undertaker. He runs away and is taken in by Fagin, a thief who is in league with a murderous pair determined to see that Oliver never inherits the fortune he deserves. Life twists and turns again for Oliver, landing him in alternately dangerous and hopeful circumstances.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Orphans -- Drama.

Criminals -- Drama.

Television mini-series -- Great Britain.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.

London (England) -- Drama.

Other Author:

Kitchen, Michael.

Walters, Julie, 1950-