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Name: Oliver!
Released: 1968-12-13
Cast: Harry Secombe, Ron Moody, Jack Wild, Shani Wallis, Mark Lester

Oliver!

G
2h 30m
1968

90%

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Experience the high-spirited adventures of Oliver Twist in this Oscar® winning musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic tale! Young Oliver (Mark Lester) is an orphan who escapes the cheerless life of the workhouse and takes to the streets of 19th-Century London. He's immediately taken in by a band of street urchins, headed by the lovable villain, Fagin (Ron Moody), his fiendish henchman, Bill Sikes (Oliver Reed), and his loyal apprentice, The Artful Dodger (Jack Wild). Through his education in the fine points of pick-pocketing, Oliver makes away with an unexpected treasure... a home and a family of his own. Set to a heartfelt score that includes such favorites as "Consider Yourself," "Where Is Love?" and "As Long As He Needs Me," "Oliver!" leads us on a journey in search of love, belonging and honor among thieves. Winner of six Academy Awards (1968), including Best Picture and BestScore, "Oliver!" will steal your heart!

Director:

Carol Reed

Producer:

Donald Albery, John Woolf

Writer:

Vernon Harris

Cast:

Harry Secombe, Ron Moody, Jack Wild, Shani Wallis, Mark Lester, Hugh Griffith, Oliver Reed

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

90%

Critics Consensus: Oliver! transforms Charles Dickens' muckraking novel into a jaunty musical Victorian fairytale, buoyed by Ron Moody's charming star turn and Onna White's rapturous choreography.

Reviews

Awards Daily

Mark Johnson

Oliver! is a fine and entertaining family favorite filled with fantastic musical numbers.

It will inevitably win you over with its elegance and delicate approach to storytelling.

Carol Reed has just made the kind of movie they don’t make anymore, and it’s as good as ever -- maybe better, coming when it’s more difficult to do.

The most important thing about [Oliver!] is pleasure, the sheer delight of a movie that can change the lives of kids who see it -- for the better, for the better -- and serve as a public bath for adults to luxuriate in, sing in, get cleansed in.

There must have been something in the water. In the same year that Oliver! was nominated, while Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey didn’t even come into contention, this trite musical took home Oscar’s Best Picture gold.

May 8, 2022

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