Oliver Twist: Oliver Twist (John Howard Davies), orphaned at birth and raised in the workhouse, is expelled for daring to ask the Beadle (Francis L. Sullivan) for more food. Unhappily apprenticed to an undertaker, Oliver escaped to London where he meets the cheeky Artful Dodger (Anthony Newly), the villainous Fagin (Alec Guiness), the aggressive Bill Sykes (Robert Newton) and the kindly but doomed Nancy (Kay Walsh). Torn constantly between the forces of good and evil, Oliver eventually seals his fate by picking the pocket of a rich gentleman (Henry Stephenson)...

Great Expectations: David Lean directed this stylish film presentation of Charles Dickens' heart warming story of a young man befriending an escaped convict who becomes his unknown benefactor, and of the consequences for the young man as he establishes himself in the world.