This made-for-television film is adapted from the classic 1838 novel by Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist premiered on ABC as part of The Wonderful World of Disney on November 16, 1997. One of this series of family programs presented under the umbrella title 'The Wonderful World of Disney,' hosted by Michael Eisner, chief executive officer of Disney. Fagin is not sentenced to death but can escape. And, as in the musical and the 1968 film Oliver!, Nancy is murdered at London Bridge, not in her bedroom as in the novel. Bumble, Corney's assistant, is only in one scene, and the Widow Corney's role is expanded. Most of the changes are minor, but a major one is that when Oliver is taken in by Fagin's gang he himself, and not the Widow Corney, is in possession of his mother's locket, and Oliver has come to London, not just to seek his fortune, but to discover his true identity. The bookseller does not testify for Oliver at his trial, but Rose Maylie does. As in most film adaptations of this novel, Monks, Oliver's half-brother, is not in the film.
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