Oliver!

Inspired by Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist,, this film version of the musical hit does a masterful job of telling its story almost exclusively through song and dance. After being sold to a mortician, 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets led by the artful Dodger and masterminded by the criminal Fagin. When Oliver’s intended mark, Mr. Brownlow, takes pity on the lad and offers him a home, Fagin’s henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy to keep him from talking.