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Oliver! (1968)
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| Starring: | Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe, Mark Lester, Johnny Green, Onna White, Peggy Mount, Leonard Rossiter, Hylda Baker, Kenneth Cranham |
| Director: | Carol Reed |
| Genre: | Drama, Kids & Family, Foreign, Musicals, Crime, England, British Musical, Kids & Family-British, British Drama |
| Year: | 1968 |
| Studio: | Sony Pictures |
| Length: | 153 minutes |
| Released: | August 12, 1998 |
| Rating: | G |
| Format: | DVD |
| Misc: | Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen, NTSC, Anamorphic |
| Language: | English(Original Language), French(Subtitled), English(Subtitled), French(Original Language) |
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SYNOPSIS:Adapted from Dickens's classic novel, it's one of the most dramatically involving and artistically impressive musicals of the 1960s, directed by Carol Reed with a delightful enthusiasm that would surely have impressed Dickens himself. Mark Lester plays the waifish orphan Oliver Twist, who is befriended by the pickpocketing Artful Dodger (Jack Wild) and recruited into the gang of boy thieves led by Fagin (played to perfection by Ron Moody). The villainous Bill Sikes (Oliver Reed) casts his long shadow over Oliver and his friends, but the young orphan is still able to find loving care in the most desperate of circumstances. Full of memorable melodies and splendid lyrics, Oliver! is a timeless film, prompting even hard-to-please critic Pauline Kael to call it "a superb demonstration of intelligent craftsmanship," and to further observe that "it's as if the movie set out to be a tribute to Dickens and his melodramatic art as well as to tell the story of Oliver Twist." --Jeff Shannon
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