DICKENS CENSORED
AN “OLIVER TWIST’’ FILM. LONDON, December 22. The Dickens .Fellowship is bewildered at the action of the film censor in excising from the new film “Oliver Twist,” in which Jackie Coogan is featured, the scene in which Fagin instructs Oliver in the “nice trade” of pocket-picking. It is argued that the deleted scene is followed by one depicting Oliver’s horror at. the sight of the Artful Dodger and Charley Bates robbing "Mr’Brownlow, and is more a moral lesson than an incentive to the crime. Mr G. K. Chesterton considers the action “ludiwnns nonsense,” and cannot conceive what danger attends the spectacle. Mr Bernard Shaw says that if scenes are banned because the story makes a hero of a pickpocket, the film people themselves are to blame after the infamous crime serials presented to child audiences.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18754, 6 January 1923, Page 10
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