Oliver Twist (1948)
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Reviews Counted: 16 Fresh: 16 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
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 he joins his household of young boys who are trained to... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Anthony Newley, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan
Director: David Lean
Story: Charles Dickens
Producer: Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan
Screenwriter: David Lean, Stanley Haynes
Composer: Arnold Bax
Story: Charles Dickens
Producer: Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan
Screenwriter: David Lean, Stanley Haynes
Composer: Arnold Bax
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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.
03/25/08 11:05 AM
Alec Guinness as the master pickpocket Fagin is the high point of David Lean's 1948 version of the Dickens classic.
11/06/07 05:00 PM
Top Critic Top Critic Perhaps marginally less beguiling than Great Expectations, but still a moving and enjoyable account of Dickens' masterpiece.
01/26/06 03:16 AM
Definitely the version to see before you subject yourself, say, to Polanski's bloated 2005 version.
12/31/05 04:16 AM
Classic Dickens ... the definitive version. Please, sir, we want some more!
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09/30/05 12:27 PM
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08/14/05 05:00 PM
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.
07/30/03 05:01 PM
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.
05/20/03 05:02 PM
Top Critic Lean's black and white film plays much better on the screen than does Dickens' original text in high school literature classes.
02/26/03 07:35 AM
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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