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Oliver!

1968 film directed by Carol Reed

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Musical 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.

Released: 1968-09-26153 minDir: Carol ReedDrama, Family

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

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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

Key dates

Published: 17 December 1968

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: film
Award: National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
Genre: crime film
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Original language: English language
Based on: Oliver!
Main subject: murder
Director: Carol Reed
Screenwriter: Lionel Bart
Composer: Lionel Bart

Article

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?".