Oliver (1968)
Driving by his deep will of having a new and comfortable life, Oliver Twist, a young miserable orphan boy that lives in the workhouse, where he suffers from the abuse he receives there and flees to London, where he meets a group of thieves and have to live with them.
29 January 1911, Wandsworth, London, England, UK
21 October 1926, Liverpool, England, UK
March 15, 1921 in Edmonton, Middlesex, England, UK
4 February 1905, Farnworth, Lancashire, England, UK
1953, England
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September 13, 1941 in Subiaco, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
12 December 1944, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK
14 February 1910, Dublin, Ireland
5 March 1948, Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, UK
18 July 1951, Gravesend, Kent, England, UK
27 August 1918, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
26 April 1940, Islington, London, England, UK
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8 September 1921, Swansea, Wales, UK
February 19, 2013
In adapting Lionel Bart's lavish musical for the screen, director Carol Reed tempered the sticky sentimentality with suitably Dickensian scenes of squalor.
December 26, 2010
Glorious musical based on Dickens' Oliver Twist.
March 18, 2008
Has little bite.
February 24, 2014
Even if you're not a fan of the musicals, Oliver is so witty, so bright and so endearing that even the iciest viewer should start melting in its corona.
February 19, 2008
After a season of watching inane twitching in the name of dance, the viewer is most happily greeted by Onna White's choreography, an exuberant step-by-step exploration of Victorian zeal.
April 07, 2015
Mistrust a movie with too many close-ups of Bisto Kid children and doleful dogs: they suggest a director cleverly boxing his way out of some very tight script corners.
December 13, 2006
In retrospect, it seems emblematic of the triviality Reed descended to in the last years of his career. The Third Man it's not.
February 24, 2014
The focus of the movie is so wide, and the logistics of the production so heavy, that Oliver himself, dutifully played by 9-year-old Mark Lester, gets flattened out and almost lost, as if he had been run over by a studio bulldozer.
February 24, 2014
Today, it works well as a child's introduction to Dickens.
February 19, 2008
There's plenty of mileage left in the famous story.
January 26, 2006
Reed is craftsman enough to make an efficient family entertainment out of Lionel Bart's musical, but not artist enough to put back any of Dickens' teeth which Bart had so assiduously drawn.
February 27, 2015
Oliver! is a timeless classic that will be as lovable in 10 or 20 years as it is today.
