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Bookmark this pageOliver Twist (1948)
Director: David Lean
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From Time Out Film Guide
David Lean's second Dickens adaptation, perhaps marginally less beguiling than Great Expectations, but still a moving and enjoyable account of Dickens' masterpiece, which gets off to a memorable start with Oliver's pregnant mother battling through the storm to reach the safety of the workhouse. The film tellingly recreates the horrors of Victorian slum life (the attractive if artificial sets atmospherically lit and shot by Guy Green), and is particularly noteworthy for Guinness' striking Fagin.Author:
Cast & crew
Director: David Lean
Producer: Ronald Neame
Cast: John Howard Davies, Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Kay Walsh, Francis L Sullivan, Henry Stephenson, Mary Clare, Anthony Newley, Kathleen Harrison, Diana Dors full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Rated: PG
Duration: 116 mins
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