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Oliver! DVD

G (General Audience) :: Sony Pictures :: Released: 1998-08-12


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Oliver! Summary A Rousing Film Version Of Lionel Bart's Musical Adaptation Of Dickens's Classic Novel, Oliver! Stars Ron Moody As Fagin And Mark Lester As The Eponymous Hero. The Orphaned Oliver Escapes To London From A Dreary Workhouse And Is Taken In By A Gang Of Young Pickpockets Who Work For Master Thief Fagin While Learning Their Trade. When He's Falsely Accused Of Stealing From The Gang By The Fearsome Bill Sikes (oliver Reed), Oliver Begins To Realize That He Has More Friends Than He Had Thought.

Film buffs and critics can argue until their faces turn blue about whether this lavish Dickensian musical deserved the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1968, but the movie speaks for itself on grandly entertaining terms. Adapted from Dickens's classic novel, it's one of the most dramatically involving and artistically impressive musicals of the 1960s, directed by Carol Reed with a delightful enthusiasm that would surely have impressed Dickens himself. Mark Lester plays the waifish orphan Oliver Twist, who is befriended by the pickpocketing Artful Dodger (Jack Wild) and recruited into the gang of boy thieves led by Fagin (played to perfection by Ron Moody). The villainous Bill Sikes (Oliver Reed) casts his long shadow over Oliver and his friends, but the young orphan is still able to find loving care in the most desperate of circumstances. Full of memorable melodies and splendid lyrics, Oliver! is a timeless film, prompting even hard-to-please critic Pauline Kael to call it "a superb demonstration of intelligent craftsmanship," and to further observe that "it's as if the movie set out to be a tribute to Dickens and his melodramatic art as well as to tell the story of Oliver Twist." --Jeff Shannon
Oliver! DVD Techincal Details Cast: Mark Lester, Johnny Green, Carol Reed, Onna White
Director: Carol ReedArray
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Rated: G (General Audience)
Running Time: 153 mins
UPC: 043396021372
Binding: DVD
Studio: Sony Pictures
Release Date: 1998-08-12
Region Code: 1
Specs: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC

Language & Subtitles English (Original Language - Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled),
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