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Oliver Twist

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Oliver Twist (1948)

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Reviews Counted: 16

Fresh: 16

Rotten:0

Average Rating: 8.7/10

Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: This lavish adaptation based on the Charles Dickens novel OLIVER TWIST is about an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. Oliver is taken in by the Artful Dodger, a notorious scrounger, and... This lavish adaptation based on the Charles Dickens novel OLIVER TWIST is about an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. Oliver is taken in by the Artful Dodger, a notorious scrounger, and he joins his household of young boys who are trained to steal for their master. The boys thieving activities, and others who desire to cash in on Oliver's fortune through criminal activities, leads to murder and community outrage as they are hunted down. This version is topped by Alex Guinness's masterly performance as the Artful Dodger's fence, that great misguided connoisseur of the gutter and archthug, Fagan. [More]

Starring: Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Anthony Newley, Kay Walsh

Starring: Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Anthony Newley, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan, Henry Stephenson, Mary Clare, John Howard Davies

Director: David Lean

Director: David Lean
Story: Charles Dickens
Producer: Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan
Screenwriter: David Lean, Stanley Haynes
Composer: Arnold Bax

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Release:

Sep 7, 2004

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DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Full Frame

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital Mono - English

Reviews for Oliver Twist

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Despite compression of characters and charges of Alec Guinness' anti-Semitic potrayal of Fagin, David Lean's version is still the most dramatically compelling, historically atmopsheric, and flawlessly acted.

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03/25/08
Emanuel Levy
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Alec Guinness as the master pickpocket Fagin is the high point of David Lean's 1948 version of the Dickens classic.

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11/06/07
Don Druker
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From every angle this is a superb achievement.

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11/06/07
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Perhaps marginally less beguiling than Great Expectations, but still a moving and enjoyable account of Dickens' masterpiece.

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01/26/06
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Definitely the version to see before you subject yourself, say, to Polanski's bloated 2005 version.

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12/31/05
Christopher Null
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11/06/05
Cole Smithey
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Classic Dickens ... the definitive version. Please, sir, we want some more!

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09/30/05
Carol Cling
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08/14/05
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06/23/04
Nell Minow
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The ultimate version of the Dickens novel.

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10/01/03
Ken Hanke
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Many of the novel's characters have been excised or compressed to fit the time frame of the film, but only the most die-hard Dickensians will protest.

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07/30/03
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It is safe to proclaim that it is merely a superb piece of motion picture art and, beyond doubt, one of the finest screen translations of a literary classic ever made.

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05/20/03
Bosley Crowther
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Lean's black and white film plays much better on the screen than does Dickens' original text in high school literature classes.

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02/26/03
John A. Nesbit
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Charles Dickens' novel rendered on the screen by an ambitious filmmaker, David Lean, is a flawed film of visual and emotional power.

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Dan Jardine
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