Oliver Twist was his second independent feature, following Peck's Bad Boy . Though Jackie's tender years forced Oliver to be a younger child than Dickens described, the film is suprprisingly faithful to the novel. Blackhawk's release was restored from a 35mm negative found in Yugoslavia. The English titles have been reconstructed mainly by Sol Lesser and Jackie Coogan. The bowls never wanted washing.
Boys have generally excellent appetites.
Child as he was, he was desperate with hunger, and reckless with misery. He gazed in stupefied astonishment on the small rebel for some seconds, and then clung for support to the copper. The master aimed a blow at Oliver's head with the ladle, pinioned him in his arms, and shrieked aloud for the beadle. There was a general start. Compose yourself, Bumble, and answer me distinctly.