Kay Walsh

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

Dir. David Lean · With John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, Alec Guinness

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.

Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · With Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Dir. David Lean · With John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager

The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship’s first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.

Dir. Noël Coward, David Lean · With Noël Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles