SILENT FILMS 1920s: OLIVER TWIST (1922)
CREDITS
Released: October 30, 1922
Production Company: Jackie Coogan Productions
Distributor: First National Pictures
Featured Cast: Jackie Coogan, James A. Marcus, Aggie Herring, Lewis Sargent, Joan Standing, Carl Stockdale, Edouard Trebaol, Lon Chaney, Taylor Graves, George Siegmann, Gladys Brockwell, Lionel Belmore, Florence Hale, Joseph Hazelton, Gertrude Claire, Esther Ralston, Eddie Boland, George Marion, Nelson McDowell
Director: Frank Lloyd
Assistant Director (uncredited): Harry Weil
Producer: Sol Lesser
Cinematographer: Glen MacWilliams, Robert Martin
Editor: Irene Morra
Art Director: Stephen Goosson
Costume Designer: Walter J. Israel
Props: Johnnie Podmore
Lighting Technician: Louis Johnson
Still Photographer (uncredited): Shirley Vance Martin
Presenter: Sol Lesser
Writers: Charles Dickens (novel), Frank Lloyd (scenario)
Harry Weil (scenario), Walter Anthony (titles)
TECH
Runtime 1 hr 14 min (74 min) (video)
1 hr 38 min (98 min) (DVD) (Spain)
Sound Mix Silent
Color Black and White (tinted)
Aspect Ratio 1.33 : 1
Film Length 2,365.55 m (8 reels) (USA)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm
STORY
Oliver’s mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring undertaker, and eventually is taken in by a gang of thieves who befriend him for their own purposes. All the while, there are secrets from Oliver’s family history waiting to come to light.
Written By: Snow Leopard
Based on the classic Dickens novel “Oliver Twist”