Acting
An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.
'An unemployed labourer is driven to burglary when he is unable to find work.' (British Film Institute)
A framed clerk is freed in time to save his daughter from being murdered for her inheritance.
A crofter's daughter has a child by an outlaw and is condemned to death when it is stolen by a midwife's mad daughter.
