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Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Country
United Kingdom
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Year
1968
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Genres
Musical Period drama
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Introduction
“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.”
Pauline Kael, Going Steady, 1969
With the jubilant songs (including ‘Consider Yourself’ and ‘I’d Do Anything’) inevitably lightening the story of a victimised and exploited orphan, Oliver! cannot help but stint on the harrowing hardships of its source material. But director Carol Reed balances light and dark skilfully. Aided by John Box’s intricate sets and Oswald Morris’s rich cinematography, he renders Victorian London as a shadowy labyrinth in the tradition of cities from his earlier work (Vienna in The Third Man, Belfast in Odd Man Out).
Ron Moody (reprising his stage role as Fagin) and the director’s nephew Oliver Reed (as Bill Sikes) give magnetic performances, while Mark Lester – who had his singing voice dubbed – twinkles like a Correggio cherub in the title role.
Oliver Twist is one of the most-filmed novels of all time. Versions by David Lean (1948) and Roman Polanski (2005) are particularly notable.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Fagin
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Nancy
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Bill Sikes
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Mr Bumble
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Mr Brownlow
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Mrs Bumble
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Mrs Sowerberry
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Mrs Bedwin
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Sowerberry
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Mr Jessop
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Bet
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Noah Claypole
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the magistrate
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Oliver Twist
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The Artful Dodger
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Dr Grimwig
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Charlotte
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chairman - workhouse
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pauper - workhouse
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pauper - workhouse
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arresting policeman
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Fagin's boy
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Fagin's boy
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Fagin's boy
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Fagin's boy
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Fagin's boy
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Fagin's boy
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Fagin's boy
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Fagin's boy
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Fagin's boy
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Fagin's boy
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Fagin's boy
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Fagin's boy
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Charlie Bates, Fagin's boy
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Fagin's boy
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Fagin's boy
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Fagin's boy
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Fagin's boy
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Fagin's boy
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Fagin's boy
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Fagin's boy
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[workhouse governor]
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[workhouse governor]
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[workhouse governor]
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[workhouse governor]
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[fire-eater]
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[Oliver's mother]
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[doctor]
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[.]
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[dancing boy]
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Credits
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Direction:
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Directed by
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Assistant Director
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2nd Unit Assistant Director
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Continuity
Production:
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©
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A Romulus Production
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Presents
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Prod by Arrangement and in Assocn with
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Produced by
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Unit Production Manager
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Production Supervisor
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Production Secretary
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[Filmed] at
Casting:
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Casting
Writing:
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Screenplay by
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Book, Music and Lyrics by
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Freely Adapted from Charles Dickens'...
Photography:
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Director of Photography
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2nd Unit Photography
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[2nd Unit Camera Operator]
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Camera Operator
Special Effects:
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Special Effects
Editing:
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Film Editor
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Assistant Film Editor
Design:
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Production Designer
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Art Director
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Assistant Art Director
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Assistant Art Director
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Set Dresser
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Set Dresser
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Production Buyer
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Construction Manager
Costumes:
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Costumes Designer
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Wardrobe Supervisor
Make-up:
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Make-up Supervisor
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Chief Hairdresser
Titles:
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Title Backgrounds by
Music:
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Music Supervised/Arranged/Conducted by
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Orchestrations & Choral Arrangements
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Additional Orchestration
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Associate Music Supervisor
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Music Coordinator
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Music Editor
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Associate Music Editor
Choreography:
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Choreography/Musical Sequences Staged by
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Associate Choreographer
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Choreographic Music Layouts
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Assistant Choreographer
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Assistant Choreographer
Sound:
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Sound Supervisor
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Sound Recordist
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Sound Recordist
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Sound System
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Sound Editor
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