An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.

• Norman Rosemont Productions
• Claridge Productions
• George C. Scott
• Tim Curry
• Richard Charles
• Michael Hordern
• Timothy West
• Eileen Atkins
• Cherie Lunghi
• Oliver Cotton