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Oliver!
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Overview

User Rating:
7.6/10   7,144 votes
Director:
Carol Reed
Writers:
Charles Dickens (freely adapted from "Oliver Twist")
Lionel Bart (book)
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Release Date:
5 October 1968 (Japan) more
Tagline:
More of a Masterpiece Than a Musical! [re-release] more
Plot:
Musical adaptation about an orphan who runs away from an orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won 5 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 23 nominations more
User Comments:
This is proof that British film studios of the 1960's could provide high quality productions more

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Lionel Bart's Oliver! (UK) (poster title)
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Runtime:
153 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (35 mm optical prints) | 4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System) (35 mm magnetic prints) | 70 mm 6-Track (Westrex Recording System) (70 mm prints)
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Company:
Romulus Films more

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Trivia:
Amazingly, the composer of this highly respected score, Lionel Bart, could not read music himself. From his earliest days in theater, he would sing his melodies to a trained pianist, who would then set the tunes down on sheet music and orchestrate them. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Oliver gets out of bed and goes to the window during the lead-in to "Who Will Buy?", his hair is tousled and sticking up. When the camera angle changes to the outside, his hair is neatly combed. more
Quotes:
[about Oliver]
Mr. Bumble: Mother came to us destitute. Brings a child into the world, takes one look at him and promptly dies - -without leaving so much as a forwarding name and address!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Sigmund and the Sea Monsters: The Wild Weekend (#1.16)" (1973) more
Soundtrack:
Consider Yourself more

FAQ

What are the three scenes inspired or taken from Dickens novel that were not in the stage version?
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24 out of 27 people found the following comment useful:-
This is proof that British film studios of the 1960's could provide high quality productions, 11 June 2005
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Author: DennisJOBrien from Virginia, United States

I was lucky to see "Oliver!" in 1968 on a big cinema screen in Boston when I was a young teenager. Later, during the summer of 1969, I was pleased to see this film was still playing at a prominent cinema in Leicester Square, London, after it had won the Academy Award for Best Picture of the previous year.

Th success of "Oliver!" on both the stage and screen reminded me that not all talent begins on Broadway and ends in Hollywood. This legendary story by Charles Dickens, which is part of the literary heritage of all English-speaking people, was admirably brought to the London stage by Lionel Bart of Great Britain. His charming musical then became a hit in New York and throughout the world. The film adaptation was made in England during the summer of 1967 and then released in 1968. The sets and musical numbers are mind boggling. The song "Who Will Buy?" required hundreds of actors and the British film director truly deserved his Oscar for putting it all together in a seamless manner. Some Canadian and American talent is also part of this wonderful production, but mostly it is a tribute to the fine craftsmanship of the British film studios, such as Shepperton. Good show! Other film studios at Elstree, Boreham Wood, Bray, Denham, and Ealing have also given the world many films to treasure over the years.

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