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Production Year: 1968 - Music / Performing Arts - Director: Carol Reed - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: Jack Wild, Shani Wallis, Kenneth Cranham, Fred Emney, Hugh Griffith, James Hayter, Megs Jenkins, Peggy Mount, Leonard Rossiter, Sheila White, Hylda Baker, Hugh O'Conor, Edwin Finn, Elizabeth Knight, Wensley Pithey, Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe, Mark Lester more

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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...
more...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 realise that he has more friends than he had thought.

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Review of Oliver! (DVD) by SusanLesley

Advantages: A great family musical, great acting, great songs.
Disadvantages: There aren't any

If you like musicals you will love this one - I promise! It will make you laugh and make you cry and even make you sing a long to Lionel Bart's great songs. This review will give you a feel for the music and a synopsis of the plot but I feel that this is OK as there can't be anyone who doesn't already know the story can there? Oliver! is the film musical based on the book Oliver Twist written by Charles Dickens. The story follows the fortunes ... Read review

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