Advantages: A great family musical, great acting, great songs. Disadvantages: There aren't any
...the story can there?
Oliver! is the film musical based on the book Oliver Twist written by Charles Dickens. The story follows the fortunes of Oliver as his mother dies in childbirth; he lives in the workhouse, and then has a spell picking pockets in London finally ending up finding his real family.
This film version won two Oscars - Best director for Carol Reed and Best Music for John Green.
The film begins in the workhouse with the birth of Oliver ... ...mother. Incidentally when I first saw this film at the cinema in 1968 I fell in love with Mark Lester! Having seen him interviewed on the Alan Titchmarsh show recently he is just as gorgeous as an adult too! Sorry I am digressing aren't I?
We then jump to Oliver aged about 10 in the workhouse with all the other boys being beaten, overworked, unloved and very poorly fed. The boys, after singing Food, Glorious Food, draw straws for who will ask Mr. ...
SusanLesley 21.02.2008 (22.02.2008)
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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...
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adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale! Young Oliver Twist (Mark Lester) is an orphan who escapes the cheerless life of the workhouse and takes to the streets of...
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