Oliver!
by Carol Reed, Ronald Saland
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Actor: Carol Reed, Johnny Green, Mark Lester, Onna White, Ron MoodyDirector: Carol Reed, Ronald Saland
Brand: LESTER,MARK
Cinematographer: Oswald Morris
Producer: John Woolf
Writer: Charles Dickens
Writer: Jay Anson
Writer: Lionel Bart
Writer: Vernon Harris
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.35:1
Running Time: 153 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-08-12
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Oliver!
DVD Review: Oliver DVD/CD
Summary: 5 Stars
My family enjoys the audio CD that came with the DVD. Slightly disappointed that some of the musical numbers have been edited for the CD. Also, the CD is not in the same order as the DVD. But, love the movie so much - great to have on DVD!DVD Review: Oscar winning movie, DVD production lacking.
Summary: 3 Stars
Why would the DVD company buy rights to an Oscar winnning movie, only to put it on 2 seperate sides of a single disc? Who knows, and frankly who cares. Hopefully a better company will remaster this DVD someday so I do not have to flip over the DVD after 90 minutes of a classic film. For this reason alone, I still watch my VHS copy of this because you do not need to break the continuity of the movie while you're watching it.DVD Review: Excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
This is indeed a fantastic movie/musical. Many many fun and singable songs like "I'd do anything for you" and "Oom pah pah". Our kids very much enjoyed it and the movie teaches great lessons about the existance of people who start life with a tragedy and how society responds. DVD Review: Not the best adaptation but earns its place as a masterpiece musical
Summary: 4 Stars
I grew up hearing about this wonderful film called OLIVER! even before I ever heard of a Charles Dickens novel called OLIVER TWIST.
I recently read OLIVER TWIST for the first time and decided it would be fun to watch different film adaptations of the novel as well. I watched three in all: this one, the David Lean version, and the Roman Polanski version. While the Roman Polanski version was truest to the novel, none of the three followed the novel very closely. And while all three had different qualities (and all three are well worth seeing for different reasons), only OLIVER! kept me glued on account of its magical feel and Dickensian nostalgia.
Sure, it had top notch acting and incredible cinematography; but these compliments were well earned by the other two aforementioned adaptations. But since it was a musical, OLIVER! also had songs that seemed to bring forth memories that I didn't know I had. I had never seen the movie before. And I had never heard any of the songs in their entirety as best as I can remember. But there was a strong familiarity in several of them: "Food, Glorious Food", "I'd Do Anything", "Who Will Buy?", and "Consider Yourself".
As is the case with even the greatest of musicals, a few of the songs go on for a very long time (i.e. "Who Will Buy?") -- sometimes, so long that you may find yourself reaching for the remote.
But in the end, OLIVER! surprised me: I was not looking for a wonderful classic musical. But I'm glad I found one.
DVD Review: Perfect purchase..........
Summary: 5 Stars
My two grandchildren were in this play this year.....I got them both a copy of this movie to have as a memory....they loved them.......thank you.
Description of Oliver!
When Oliver leaves a workhouse and ends up in London an abandoned orphan, he falls in with Fagin who teaches him to steal for a living.Genre: Musicals
Rating: G
Release Date: 3-APR-2007
Media Type: DVD
Film buffs and critics can argue until their faces turn blue about whether this lavish Dickensian musical deserved the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1968, but the movie speaks for itself on grandly entertaining terms. Adapted from Dickens's classic novel, it's one of the most dramatically involving and artistically impressive musicals of the 1960s, directed by Carol Reed with a delightful enthusiasm that would surely have impressed Dickens himself. Mark Lester plays the waifish orphan Oliver Twist, who is befriended by the pickpocketing Artful Dodger (Jack Wild) and recruited into the gang of boy thieves led by Fagin (played to perfection by Ron Moody). The villainous Bill Sikes (Oliver Reed) casts his long shadow over Oliver and his friends, but the young orphan is still able to find loving care in the most desperate of circumstances. Full of memorable melodies and splendid lyrics, Oliver! is a timeless film, prompting even hard-to-please critic Pauline Kael to call it "a superb demonstration of intelligent craftsmanship," and to further observe that "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." --Jeff Shannon
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