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Binding: DVD
EAN: 0842001880874
Feature: THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER
Format: PAL
Label: Filmax
Manufacturer: Filmax
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Filmax
Region Code: 2.0
Running Time: 105 minutes
Sales Rank: 81560
Studio: Filmax
Theatrical Release Date: July 30, 1951
Features:- THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER
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Spain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD:it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),Spanish ( Subtitles ),SPECIAL FEATURES: Biographies, Interactive Menu, Making Of, Posters, Scene Access, Storyboards, Trailer(s),SYNOPSIS: The second of director David Lean's adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel (Great Expectations (1946) was the first), Oliver Twist expertly boils down an enormous novel to a little less than two hours' screen time. The film begins with baby Oliver left on the doorstep of an orphanage/workhouse by his unwed mother. Proving a difficult charge to the wicked orphanage official, Oliver (John Howard Davies) is sold into a job as an undertaker's apprentice. He runs away and joins a gang of larcenous street urchins, led by master pickpocket Fagin (Alec Guinness). Oliver is rescued from this life by the kindly Mr. Brownlow (Henry Stephenson); but, with the complicity of evil Bill Sikes (Robert Newton), Fagin abducts Oliver. Sikes' girl friend Nancy (Kay Walsh) restores Oliver to Brownlow, leading to tragic consequences before an ultimately happy ending. Oliver Twist was filmed in England in 1948, but its American release was held up for three years due to the allegedly anti-Semitic portrayal of the duplicitous Fagin. Even in its currently censored form, Oliver Twist is one the best-ever film versions of a Dickens novel. It served as a blueprint for Oliver! (1968), the Oscar-winning musical version.
SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BAFTA Awards, Venice Film Festival,
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David Lean's 1948 version of Charles Dickens' classic novel begins with a bang: the young hero's pregnant mother fighting her way through a storm, a perfect metaphor for Oliver's difficult road ahead. Set in a world of slums in the shadow of Victorian England, the story traces the boy's life in a workhouse and then with a gang of little pickpockets. A stark but good-looking film shot around some impressive sets, Lean's immortal adaptation is perhaps best known for Alec Guinness's remarkable (and slightly controversial) performance as Fagin, the old mentor to the gang of boy thieves. --Tom Keogh
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It's three must-see lessons in character-acting:
Anyone who thinks Alec Guiness can only play nice hasn't seen this. (Also must see KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS where he plays eight characters including an active guy in his early twenties, an old man frozen by Parkinsons' Disease and a woman.)
Robert Newton. Known for saying "Arrrrrrgh, Matey!" To see how incredibly versatile he was, compare this terrifying Sikes to his performance in Hitchcock's JAMAICA INN, where he plays ... Read More
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There are plenty of reviews here urging you to watch this film. Let me say only this: watch it for two geniuses: one, David Lean who directed this masterpiece in daring and haunting style; and Alec Guinnis (sp.?) who plays Fagin. You will never forget this Fagin, not as long as you live. The film has some of the greatest camera work I've ever seen, such as the pub scene where the camera shows you what is going on with all the different characters without a word being said. There is also the long ... Read More
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There's nothing I can say that has not been said already but for the sake of giving this movie one more positive review and someone who's never seen it one more reason to see it, I shall embark upon this small quest. Legend is the life of Oliver Twist - full of rags and pain and hunger while his soul was ever alight with love of humanity. Dicken's work is so brilliant one would never believe that it could possibly be translated to the screen...well, for every other version in existence, that holds. ... Read More
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As much as I like LAWRENCE OF ARABA, though still way too long, I have had to admit that this is David Lean's masterpiece. I saw it projected on the big screen at the Egyptian Theatre during a Lean Retrospective and it dropped my jaw. All of this talk about how LAWRENCE changed editing in motion pictures with its "match cut" blah, blah, blah, when Lean had been editing, or supervising the editing of his films like that all along. Trust American audiences not to believe anything unless it appears on ... Read More
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Ever since I saw the BBC version of Oliver Twist, I've been searching for a faithful adaption that I could watch in one night. Judging by the overwhelming popularity of the David Lean film, I thought this might be what I was looking for. Dissapointed. In this nearly two hour film, Oliver has almost no lines at all, and his personality is lamentably underdeveloped. (Sweet and naive was all I got). Rose, Harry, Mrs. Maylie, and their family Docter were left out, and Monks -- a fascinating, eccentric ... Read More
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