Dans cette adaptation du célèbre roman de Charles Dickens, un jeune orphelin – apprenti maltraité chez un fabricant de cercueils – s’enfuit à Londres et intègre une bande de voleurs.

David Lean’s inventive, expressionist take on the beloved orphan’s tale is one of the best versions of Charles Dickens brought to the silver screen. The film also continued his collaboration with the great actor Alec Guinness, cementing one of cinema’s most illustrious director-actor partnerships.