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Bookmark this pageOliver Twist (1982)
Director: Clive Donner
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Writer James Goldman has in the past come up with imaginative slants on familiar figures (Sherlock Holmes, Robin Hood) but nothing very original seems to have occurred to him as regards Fagin, Bill Sikes and the rest. If the picture has an auteur it's the corporate one of Trident Television, and the enterprise registers as perfunctory, flavourless and underproduced, in the way of conventional TV adaptations. Unfair to all concerned, especially the audience, to allow such feeble stuff on to the big screen.Author: BBa
Cast & crew
Director: Clive Donner
Producer: Ted Childs, Norton Romsey
Cast: George C Scott, Tim Curry, Michael Hordern, Timothy West, Eileen Atkins, Cherie Lunghi, Oliver Cotton, Richard Charles, Martin Tempest full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 102 mins
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