i have always love this story the hopeful theme and the excellent character and dickens realistic and meticulous description . so when this be air and all my friend tell me to watch it and because it be really good . so i do . and i enjoy it . it do not stick to the book too often and and mr bumble and fagin weren not that dickensian and but monk be brilliant and there be some ingenious moment of direction . then i watch the final episode and and be so disappointed . someone else say they be almost in tear by the end . i be too it be so poor . it be a though the scriptwriter skim through the book and make the rest up . it be rush and especially during sikes escape and and a a result lack any feeling to it . the only feeling be in the one place it shouldn not have be sikes . dickens write him a an unfeeling and brutal character . if at any point he love nancy and he would never have say so and least of all to fagin . that one line and i love her and fagin ruin everything the film have go for it . unbeliveable . which describe fagin . pathetic . alec guinness be so much good he be realistic . a be france l. sullivan . i do not think that guy who play mr bumble realise that the character be a poke of fun at the parish beadle . as well a the dodger . if dickens write that he be around oliver age and do you think the dodger be mean to be around oliver age . on the other hand and as well a monk superb act and rise maylie ( sorry and fleming ) be pretty good and a be nancy and except she do not show any love for bill . they must have get the two mix up . i much prefer lean 1948 version . it may be abriged and but it good than the expanded attempt at dickens .