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Oliver! (1968)
7.5
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. Director:Carol ReedWriters:Charles Dickens (freely adapted from "Oliver Twist"), Lionel Bart (book), and 1 more credit » |
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Won 5 Oscars.
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Shani Wallis | ... | |
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Harry Secombe | ... | |
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Joseph O'Conor | ... | |
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Peggy Mount | ... | |
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Leonard Rossiter | ... | |
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Hylda Baker | ... | |
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Kenneth Cranham | ... | |
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Megs Jenkins | ... | |
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Sheila White | ... | |
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Wensley Pithey | ... | |
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Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor. Written by Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
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Country:
UKLanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
(Japan) See more »Also Known As:
Lionel Bart's Oliver! See more »Filming Locations:
Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UKBox Office
Budget:
$10,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$40,000,000 (Worldwide) (January 1980)Company Credits
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Mono (35 mm optical prints) | 70 mm 6-Track (Westrex Recording System) (70 mm prints) | 4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System) (35 mm magnetic prints)Color:
Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1
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The Magistrate: [half-drunk] But sentence has been passed... hasn't it?
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Mark Lester did not do his own singing in Oliver! It was dubbed by Kathe Green, daughter of Johnny Green, the music arranger/supervisor on the film. Johnny revealed this for the first time publicly in 1988 during an interview on the 20th anniversary of the film. He says that Mark Lester was "tone deaf and arrhythmic". He originally had two boys set to dub his singing but during post production they realized their voices didn't match Mark's look, so they used Johnny's daughter instead. See more »Goofs
Anachronisms: The "Boy For Sale" sequence deviates from both the novel and history: even during the harshest phases of Poor Law reform it was illegal for the government to sell paupers as slaves to tradespeople. It was also pointless, as apprentices could be had for nothing, and the state had to pay tradespeople for the service of taking paupers off their hands (as is the case in the novel, where the fee is paid by Bumble to Sowerberry). See more »Quotes
Mr. Jessop: Two other boys stole Mr. Brownlow's wallet. This child had nothing to do with it!The Magistrate: [half-drunk] But sentence has been passed... hasn't it?
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