Oliver Twist [videorecording] / Independent Producers ; screen play by David Lean and Stanley Haynes ; produced by Ronald Neame ; directed by David Lean.
Material type: FilmPublisher number: OLI040 | Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 32.Publication details: [Irvingtion, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [1998]Description: 1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inISBN:- 0780021282
- 9780780021280
- Title on container: David Lean's Oliver Twist
- Oliver Twist (Motion picture : 1948)
- Photographer, Guy Green ; editor, Jack Harris ; music composed by Arnold Bax.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
DVD, NTSC, ; 1.33:1 aspect ratio; Dolby digital mono.
Subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired in English.
John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan, Henry Stephenson, Mary Clare, Anthony Newley, Josephine Stuart, Ralph Truman, Kathleen Harrison, Gibb McLaughlin.
Photographer, Guy Green ; editor, Jack Harris ; music composed by Arnold Bax.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1948.
Based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
After escaping from the dreary workhouse where he has spent his childhood, Oliver runs away to London, only to fall in with Artful Dodger, Fagin, and their gang of young thieves. It is only with the revelation of Oliver's true identity that his troubles finally end.
Includes original theatrical trailer.