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Oliver Twist
A Screen Event To Be Remembered For All Time !
A Screen Event To Be Remembered For All Time !
Adventure, Drama, Family - 1948
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When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
Director:
,
David Lean
Cast:
,
Alec Guinness
,
Mary Clare
,
Robert Newton
,
Kay Walsh
,
John Howard Davies
,
Anthony Newley
,
Henry Stephenson
,
Ralph Truman
,
Francis L. Sullivan

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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
116 min
Release date:
28 Jun 1948
Country:
GB
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award1 win & 3 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Perhaps marginally less beguiling than Great Expectations, but still a moving and enjoyable account of Dickens' masterpiece.
– ,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
fresh:
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.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
From every angle this is a superb achievement.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
6 Nov 2007
fresh:
Alec Guinness as the master pickpocket Fagin is the high point of David Lean's 1948 version of the Dickens classic.
– Don Druker,
Chicago Reader,
6 Nov 2007
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