Oliver (DVD + CD) |  | Actors: Johnny Green, Onna White, Carol Reed, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Region: 99
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 153 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 10.6 x 7.5 x 0.6
MPN: COLD01286D
ISBN: 1404935614
UPC: 043396012868
EAN: 9781404935617
Release Date: September 27, 2005
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Product Description
Musical version of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist adapted from the stage hit, 1968 Best Picture Oscarr. Set to a heartfelt score that includes such favorites as 'Consider Yourself', 'Where Is Love?' and 'As Long As He Needs Me', Oliver! leads us on a journey in search of love, belonging and honor among thieves. Winner of six Academy Awardsr (1968), including Best Picture and Best Score.
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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