Oliver Twist is a 1912 British silent drama film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Ivy Millais, Alma Taylor and Harry Royston. It is an adaptation of the 1838 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. It was the directorial debut of Bentley who went on to become a leading British director. It was the first in a series of Dickens adaptations by Bentley.
Oliver Twist is an orphan whose journey begins from a harsh workhouse into the underworld of London, where he encounters Fagin's gang of pickpockets, boys trained to steal for their master. After being wrongfully accused of theft and befriending Mr. Brownlow, Oliver is drawn back into Fagin's clutches, setting in motion a series of dramatic events that ultimately reveal his true parentage and reunite him with his family.