Oliver Twist (1948)
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Anthony Newley, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan
Story: Charles Dickens
Producer: Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan
Screenwriter: David Lean, Stanley Haynes
Composer: Arnold Bax
DVD Info
Release:
Sep 7, 2004
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Full Frame
Audio:
- Dolby Digital Mono - English
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Reviews
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.
Alec Guinness as the master pickpocket Fagin is the high point of David Lean's 1948 version of the Dickens classic.
Perhaps marginally less beguiling than Great Expectations, but still a moving and enjoyable account of Dickens' masterpiece.
Definitely the version to see before you subject yourself, say, to Polanski's bloated 2005 version.
Classic Dickens ... the definitive version. Please, sir, we want some more!
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.
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.
Lean's black and white film plays much better on the screen than does Dickens' original text in high school literature classes.
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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