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Oliver Twist (1948)

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Country: GB
Technical: bw 116m
Director: David Lean
Cast: Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Francis L. Sullivan, John Howard Davies

Synopsis:

A child born out of wedlock makes his way from the workhouse to an apprenticeship, and from there falls in among street urchins and thieves.

Review:

Dickens's great 'women's rights' novel has no less than two female victims, and a Jewish sort-of villain, so there is plenty for adaptors to get their teeth into in terms of representations. Lean offers us a Guinness beyond recognition and a mother and Nancy straight out of D.W. Griffith, but this is classic filmed Dickens, with characters sharply drawn and studio sets perfectly designed and lit, so that when Reed came to do the musical version twenty years later he had to change precious little.

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Country: GB
Technical: bw 116m
Director: David Lean
Cast: Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Francis L. Sullivan, John Howard Davies

Synopsis:

A child born out of wedlock makes his way from the workhouse to an apprenticeship, and from there falls in among street urchins and thieves.

Review:

Dickens's great 'women's rights' novel has no less than two female victims, and a Jewish sort-of villain, so there is plenty for adaptors to get their teeth into in terms of representations. Lean offers us a Guinness beyond recognition and a mother and Nancy straight out of D.W. Griffith, but this is classic filmed Dickens, with characters sharply drawn and studio sets perfectly designed and lit, so that when Reed came to do the musical version twenty years later he had to change precious little.


Country: GB
Technical: bw 116m
Director: David Lean
Cast: Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Francis L. Sullivan, John Howard Davies

Synopsis:

A child born out of wedlock makes his way from the workhouse to an apprenticeship, and from there falls in among street urchins and thieves.

Review:

Dickens's great 'women's rights' novel has no less than two female victims, and a Jewish sort-of villain, so there is plenty for adaptors to get their teeth into in terms of representations. Lean offers us a Guinness beyond recognition and a mother and Nancy straight out of D.W. Griffith, but this is classic filmed Dickens, with characters sharply drawn and studio sets perfectly designed and lit, so that when Reed came to do the musical version twenty years later he had to change precious little.

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