It has been nearly a century since the first film based on Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, and the Internet Movie Database indicates there have been over two dozen adaptations since then.

Roman Polanski gives us the Dickens in Oliver Twist. He’s excitingly faithful ... The result is a headlong road movie, even when the road turns into the twisting alleyways of London.

But with Bill Sykes, South London actor Jamie Foreman has finally met his match. In Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist, British cinema's most convincing tough guy plays Dickens' infamous villain with a ...

An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.

Legendary director David Lean gave us an acclaimed adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist in 1948 and a blockbusting musical version followed in 1968. Both acts were tough to follow ...

Without his name on the credits, it would be difficult to identify the latest version of “Oliver Twist” as the work of Roman Polanski. Conventional, straightforward and very much within what ...