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Oliver!
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7.0Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
Cast
- Ron Moody as Fagin
- Shani Wallis as Nancy
- Oliver Reed as Bill Sikes
- Harry Secombe as Mr. Bumble
- Mark Lester as Oliver
- Jack Wild as The Artful Dodger
Themes
- london, england
- based on novel or book
- pickpocket
- orphanage
- musical
- based on play or musical
- victorian england
- orphan
- dog
- 19th century
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Ratings
IMDb
7.4/10
43,327 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
90%
Metacritic
74/100
- Year
- 1968
- Runtime
- 153 min
- Genres
- Drama, Family, Musical
- Rated
- G
- Awards
- Won 5 Oscars. 13 wins & 25 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Carol Reed
- Screenplay by
- Vernon Harris
- Based on
- Oliver! , 1960 musical, by Lionel Bart , Oliver Twist , 1837 novel, by Charles Dickens
- Produced by
- John Woolf
- Starring
- Ron Moody , Oliver Reed , Harry Secombe , Shani Wallis , Mark Lester , Jack Wild
- Cinematography
- Oswald Morris
- Edited by
- Ralph Kemplen
- Music by
- Lionel Bart (music and lyrics) , John Green (music score)
- Production company
- Romulus Films
- Distributed by
- Columbia Pictures
- Release date
- 26 September 1968 ( 1968-09-26 )
- Running time
- 153 minutes
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $10 million
- Box office
- $40 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 146
- FilmAffinity ID
- 347212
- Image
- Opdracht Columbia Internationaal (etalages over Oliver), Bestanddeelnr 921-9805.jpg
Show 4 more facts
- publication date
- 1968-12-17
- title
- Oliver!
- Commons category
- Oliver! (film)
- review score
- 90%
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Oliver! is a 1968 British period musical drama film directed by Carol Reed from a screenplay by Vernon Harris, based on Lionel Bart's 1960 stage musical, itself an adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1838 novel Oliver Twist. It stars Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe, Shani Wallis, Jack Wild, and Mark Lester in the title role.
Filmed at Shepperton Film Studio in Surrey, the film was a Romulus production by John Woolf and was distributed worldwide by Columbia Pictures. It includes such musical numbers as "Food, Glorious Food", "Consider Yourself", "As Long as He Needs Me", "I'd Do Anything", "You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two", and "Where Is Love?".