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Oliver Twist

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Oliver Twist
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NR,1hr 56min
Genres:
Drama,Action
Released:
July 30, 1951
Director:
David Lean
Distributor:
United Artists
Starring:
Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh  ...more
Synopsis: The second of director David Lean's adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel (Great Expectations (1946) was the first), Oliver Twist expertly boils down an enormous novel to a little less than two hours' screen time. The film begins with baby Oliver left on the doorstep of an orphanage/workhouse by his unwed mother. Proving a difficult charge to the wicked orphanage official, Oliver (John Howard Davies) is sold into a job as an undertaker's apprentice. He runs away and joins a gang of larcenous street ... Full Synopsis
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Dan Jardine, AMG Review
David Lean's ambitious interpretation of this Charles Dickens classic is a powerful but flawed film. Guy Green's hyaline cinematography dominates the picture from its opening shots of a terrified young woman stumbling around in a stormy heath to its closing scenes of mob violence. His camera is perched above the characters, implying moral superiority to the many flawed characters, while making the ... Full Review
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Robert Newton
Bill Sikes
Alec Guinness
Fagin
Kay Walsh
Nancy, Nancy Sikes
Francis L. Sullivan
Mr. Bumble
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Garfield's look-alike, Prince, a new convert to the joys of lasagna, invokes the spirit of Dickens'...
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