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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Jack Wild

Jack Wild appears in Oliver!, the film adaptation of the book by Charles Dickens Oliver Twist, first published in 1838.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
Oliver!. Poster of the 1968 movie and cover of the 1838 book, Oliver Twist
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Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens, 1838
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Oliver!
Carol Reed, 1968

Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist. Oliver is a nine-year-old orphan who’s sold to an undertaker by workhouse officials for objecting to his scant rations; he soon manages to escape from bondage and make his way to London. There he’s befriended by the precocious Artful Dodger, a pickpocket who belongs to a gang of youthful thieves run by Fagin, a veteran cutpurse.