Oliver Twist (1948)

John Howard Davies: Oliver Twist

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• Oliver Twist : Please, sir, I want some more.

• Noah Claypole : Workhouse, what's your mother?

  Oliver Twist : She's dead.

  Noah Claypole : What - she die of workhouse?

  Oliver Twist : They said she died of a broken heart.

• Oliver Twist : Please, sir. I want some more.

  Workhouse Master : What?

  Mrs. Corney : What?

  Mr. Bumble : What?

  Chairman of the Board : Ask for more?

• Mrs Sowerberry : Your bed's under the counter. You don't mind, I suppose?

  Oliver Twist : No, ma'am.

  Mrs Sowerberry : Doesn't much matter whether you do or you don't, for you can't sleep anywhere else.

• Noah Claypole : Do you know who I am?

  Oliver Twist : No, sir.

  Noah Claypole : I'm Mr Noah Claypole and you're under me so don't you forget it!

• Fagin : You'd like to make pocket handkerchiefs as easily as the Artful Dodger, wouldn't you my dear?

  Oliver Twist : Yes, if you teach me sir.

  Fagin : We will, my dear, we will.

• Mr. Brownlow : How would you like to grow up a clever man and write books?

  Oliver Twist : I think I'd rather read them sir.

  Mr. Brownlow : What, don't you want to be a book writer?

  Oliver Twist : I think I'd rather be a bookseller sir.

• Oliver Twist : I don't know them, I don't belong with them.

• Noah Claypole : Workhouse, don't be impudent. You know, Workhouse, your mother must have been a regular, right-down bad 'un.

  Oliver Twist : What did you say?

  Noah Claypole : A regular, right-down bad 'un, Workhouse. And it's a great deal better, Workhouse, that she died when she did, or else she'd have been doing hard labor in Bridewell. Or transported or hung, which is more likely than either.

• Oliver Twist : Twist. Oliver Twist.

  Mr. Brownlow : Hmm, that's a queer name.

• Dodger : Stayin' in London?

  Oliver Twist : Yes.

  Dodger : Got any lodgings?

  Oliver Twist : No.

  Dodger : Money?

  Oliver Twist : No.

  Dodger : Hungry?

  Oliver Twist : Yes.

  Dodger : Follow me.