Oliver! (Blu-ray) G
Much Much More Than a Musical!
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Blu-ray BD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 2.35:1
- Rated: G
- Run Time: 2 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 11, 2018
- Originally Released: 1968
- Label: Sony Screen Classics by Request
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Oliver Reed, Shani Wallis & Ron Moody | |
Performer: | Harry Secombe, Mark Lester, Jack Wild, Hugh Griffith, Hugh O'Conor, Peggy Mount, Leonard Rossiter, Hylda Baker, Kenneth Cranham, Megs Jenkins, Sheila White, Wensley Pithey, James Hayter, Elizabeth Knight, Fred Emney & Edwin Finn | |
Directed by | Carol Reed | |
Edited by | Ralph Kemplen | |
Screenwriting by | Vernon Harris | |
Original story by | Charles Dickens | |
Composition by | Lionel Bart | |
Produced by | John Woolf | |
Director of Photography: | Oswald Morris |
Entertainment Reviews:
[A] picture that will as firmly imprint itself on the imagination of the young as did some scenes in Snow White more than a generation ago.
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Guardian
Rating: 3/5 --
Even if you're not a fan of the musicals, Oliver is so witty, so bright and so endearing that even the iciest viewer should start melting in its corona.
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Empire Magazine
In retrospect, it seems emblematic of the triviality Reed descended to in the last years of his career. The Third Man it's not.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 4/4 --
Oliver! is a timeless classic that will be as lovable in 10 or 20 years as it is today.
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New York Daily News
The focus of the movie is so wide, and the logistics of the production so heavy, that Oliver himself, dutifully played by 9-year-old Mark Lester, gets flattened out and almost lost, as if he had been run over by a studio bulldozer.
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New York Times
Rating: 4/5 --
In adapting Lionel Bart's lavish musical for the screen, director Carol Reed tempered the sticky sentimentality with suitably Dickensian scenes of squalor.
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Total Film
Mistrust a movie with too many close-ups of Bisto Kid children and doleful dogs: they suggest a director cleverly boxing his way out of some very tight script corners.
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The Spectator
Description by OLDIES.com:
Young Oliver (Mark Lester) is an orphan who escapes the cheerless life of the workhouse and takes to the streets of 19th-Century London. He's immediately taken in by aband of street urchins, headed by the lovable villain, Fagin (Ron Moody), his fiendish henchman, Bill Sikes (Oliver Reed), and his loyal apprentice, The Artful Dodger (Jack Wild). Through his education in the fine points of pick-pocketing, Oliver makes away with an unexpected treasure... a home and a family of his own.
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 24,928
- UPC: 043396546462
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