A Musical film version of Charles Dickens's classic novel, OLIVER! stars Ron Moody as Fagin and Mark Lester .

The orphaned Oliver (Mark Lester) escapes to London from a dreary workhouse and is taken in by a gang of young pickpockets who work for master thief Fagin while learning their trade.

When he's falsely accused of stealing from the gang by the fearsome Bill Sikes (Oliver Reed), Oliver begins to realize that he has more friends than he had thought.