Oliver Twist (1912 American film)
Oliver Twist is a 1912 silent feature film drama based on Charles Dickens's classic 1838 novel Oliver Twist. This film is the first feature version of the story followed by a later British film released in October 1912. Nat C. Goodwin, a distinguished comedian from the Broadway stage, stars. The General Film Company, usually a distributor, produced this film and it was released on State Rights basis.
A print survives in the Library of Congress collection.Cast
- Nat C. Goodwin - Fagin
- Vinnie Burns - Oliver Twist
- Charles Rogers - Artful Dodger
- Mortimer Martine - Bill Sikes
- Beatrice Moreland - Nancy
- Edwin McKim - Monks
- Daniel Read - Bates
- Hudson Liston - Mr. Brownlow
- Frank Kendrick - Mr. Grimwig
- Stuart Holmes - Bumble, the Beadle
- Lillian DeLesque - Rose
- Mrs. Liston - Mrs. Maylie
- Will Scherer - Giles
- Frank Stafford - Brittles
- Louise White - Agnes Fleming
- Jack Hopkins - Charles Leeford
- Agnes Stone - Nurse
