Oliver! (1968)

7.5	Listal rating
7.6	IMDB rating

Musical (6), Dancing (2), Singing (2), Book Adaptation (1), Songs (1), Orphan (1), Child Actors (1), Dance (1), Stage (1), Based On A Novel (1), Music (1), Adapted (1), Musicals (1), Charles Dickens (1), English (1), Threatre (1), Adaptation (1), (1), Best Picture Oscar (1), Best Director Oscar (1)

Description

A 1968 musical film about Oliver (Mark Lester) , a nine-year-old workhouse orphan who's sold to an undertaker by workhouse officials after objecting to his scant rations; he soon manages to escape from bondage and make his way to London. There he's befriended by the precocious Artful Dodger (Jack Wild), a pickpocket who belongs to a gang of youthfu ... (more)

Directed by

Carol Reed

Starring (View all) :

Fagin

Nancy

Bill Sikes

Mr. Bumble

Oliver Twist

The Artful Dodger

The Magistrate

Mr. Brownlow

Mrs. Bumble

Sowerberry

Written by (View all) :

Charles Dickens

Lionel Bart

(book)

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Ratings of Oliver!

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GemLil

Oliver!, cures what ails ya.

Posted : 1 year, 4 months ago at Feb 27 15:10

Anyone with a heart in them cannot help being lifted by this musical. I'm yet to meet anyone who doesn’t know at least one song...'Oliver!' is a British Institution. Every single song makes you want to join in and stirs an unexplainable pride in the heart of any Londoner. Every single adaptation of Dicken's Oliver after this has yet to hold a candle. Nobody has played a better Dodger than Jack Wild, no Sykes is as good as Oliver Reed's and that’s not to mention Mr Bumble, Nancy and of course Fagin. Funnily enough this production has become so popular that the storyline has replaced Dickens' original in the minds of most. Very few realise how much this movie deviates from the original plot of Dickens', 'Oliver Twist'. I won't spoil it for you..but the movie is barely like the...Read more

Rating : 10/10

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