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- 1951
- Approved
- United Artists
- 1 h 56 m
- 1951
- Approved
- United Artists
- 1 h 56 m
Summary An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Directed By: David Lean
Written By: Charles Dickens, Stanley Haynes, Eric Ambler, Kay Walsh, David Lean
- 1951
- Approved
- United Artists
- 1 h 56 m
- 1951
- Approved
- United Artists
- 1 h 56 m
Oliver Twist
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Summary An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Directed By: David Lean
Written By: Charles Dickens, Stanley Haynes, Eric Ambler, Kay Walsh, David Lean
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
84
100% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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The sets are as much a part of the story as the dialogue, and set designer John
Bryan's work is effectively photographed by Guy Green. All the acting is first-rate, and there is not a false note from the cast.
A superb piece of motion picture art and, beyond doubt, one of the finest screen translations of a literary classic ever made.
It’s less impressionistic than Great Expectations and more starkly insistent—fitting for a work that doubles as a social tract about the mistreatment of children in England in the early 1800s. John Howard Davies, as Oliver, has a heartbreakingly fresh face, one that’s increasingly bewildered by the cruelty continually visited upon him.
Alec Guinness as the master pickpocket Fagin is the high point of David Lean's 1948 version of the Dickens classic.
In the person of Alec Guinness, Fagin the Viper, the corrupter of youth, has a sly, depraved charm.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 7 User Ratings
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 7 User Ratings
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Production Company
Cineguild
Release Date Jul 30, 1951
Duration 1 h 56 m
Rating Approved
Genres
Tagline A Screen Event To Be Remembered For All Time !
Awards
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 1 Nomination
