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Oliver Twist (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Venice Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
116 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1948 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
David Lean

Written By:
Charles Dickens (novel)
Stanley Haynes (screenplay)

Actors:
Robert Newton ..... Bill Sikes
Alec Guinness ..... Fagin
Kay Walsh ..... Nancy
Francis L. Sullivan ..... Mr. Bumble
John Howard Davies ..... Oliver Twist
Henry Stephenson ..... Mr. Brownlow
Mary Clare ..... Mrs. Corney
Anthony Newley ..... Artful Dodger
Josephine Stuart ..... Oliver's Mother
Ralph Truman ..... Monks
Kathleen Harrison ..... Mrs. Sowerberry
Gibb McLaughlin ..... Mr. Sowerberry
Amy Veness ..... Mrs. Bedwin
Diana Dors ..... Charlotte
Frederick Lloyd ..... Dr. Grimwig

Synopsis:

The second of director David Lean's adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel (Great Expectations (1946) was the first), Oliver Twist expertly boils down an enormous novel to a little less than two hours' screen time. The film begins with baby Oliver left on the doorstep of an orphanage/workhouse by his unwed mother. Proving a difficult charge to the wicked orphanage official, Oliver (John Howard Davies) is sold into a job as an undertaker's apprentice. He runs away and joins a gang of larcenous street urchins, led by master pickpocket Fagin (Alec Guinness). Oliver is rescued from this life by the kindly Mr. Brownlow (Henry Stephenson); but, with the complicity of evil Bill Sikes (Robert Newton), Fagin abducts Oliver. Sikes' girl friend Nancy (Kay Walsh) restores Oliver to Brownlow, leading to tragic consequences before an ultimately happy ending. Oliver Twist was filmed in England in 1948, but its American release was held up for three years due to the allegedly anti-Semitic portrayal of the duplicitous Fagin. Even in its currently censored form, Oliver Twist is one the best-ever film versions of a Dickens novel. It served as a blueprint for Oliver! (1968), the Oscar-winning musical version.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 04 March, 2008.

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