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Oliver!: Directed by Carol Reed. With Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe. After being sold to the mortician Sowerberry, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by their elderly mentor Fagin in 1830s London in this musical based on Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist.
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- Drama, Family, Musical
- Carol Reed
- 1968-09-27
Oliver Twist (1948), directed by David Lean, tells the story of a young orphan's tale of suffering and misfortune that leads him to seek out a better life. W...
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- VinFlix
Oliver Twist: Directed by David Lean. With Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan. In Charles Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home.
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- Drama
- David Lean
- 1951-07-30
Oliver Twist: Directed by Roman Polanski. With Barney Clark, Jeremy Swift, Ian McNeice, Richard Durden. An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London.
- (34K)
- Crime, Drama
- Roman Polanski
- 2005-09-30
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Twist is not a great movie by any stretch of the imagination, but at least it does try to do something a little different with the classic literature and deserves a little credit for that at least. This 2021 Sky Original movie adaptation of Oliver Twist is set in the present day and imagines Twist as a gifted graffiti artist, played by Riff Law, ge...
A more faithful adaptation to the more recent 2021 version, 2005’s Oliver Twist was a hit with critics, but unfortunately couldn’t find its footing at the box office and was eventually deemed a commercial failure. Helmed by legendary (and controversial) director Roman Polanski, the movie is beautifully shot, and it was a stroke of genius casting Si...
Disney’s animated Oliver Twist-inspired classic Oliver & Company is probably the most original and interesting interpretation of the Dickens classic. Oliver, in this case, is a homeless kitten who joins a gang of dogs, run by a human Fagin, to survive in the streets. While Fagin is portrayed as a somewhat sympathetic character in the original novel...
Released in 1948, the David Lean adaptation Oliver Twist manages to truly bring to life the squalid, dingy, and dark conditions the homeless children of Victorian London would have been living in. Lean had already had some experience in adapting Dickens’ work, having already directed his take on Great Expectations a couple of years prior. The exper...
Arguably one of the greatest musicals of all time, the 1968 adaptation of Oliver Twist, directed by Carol Reed, manages to feel both faithful to the source material yet entirely fresh and original. This in large is down to the fact that Reed decided to base it on Lionel Bart's 1960 stage musical of the same name. Featuring a plethora of unforgettab...
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Oliver Twist is a 1948 British film and the second of David Lean's two film adaptations of Charles Dickens novels. Following his 1946 version of Great Expectations, Lean re-assembled much of the same team for his adaptation of Dickens' 1838 novel, including producers Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan, cinematographer Guy Green, designer John Bryan and editor Jack Harris.
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Box office. $40 million. Oliver! is a 1968 British period musical drama film based on Lionel Bart 's 1960 stage musical of the same name, itself an adaptation of Charles Dickens 's 1838 novel Oliver Twist. Directed by Carol Reed from a screenplay by Vernon Harris, the picture includes such musical numbers as "Food, Glorious Food", "Consider ...
