Oliver Twist

Name: Oliver Twist
Genre: Drama
Released: July 30, 1951
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 84
Cast: Alec Guinness, Anthony Newley, Francis L. Sullivan, Henry Stephenson, Josephine Stuart

1951

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General Film Distributors (GFD) | Release Date: July 30, 1951 | Approved

Starring: Alec Guinness, Anthony Newley, Francis L. Sullivan, Henry Stephenson, Josephine Stuart, Kathleen Harrison, Kay Walsh, Mary Clare, Ralph Truman, Robert Newton

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.

Director: David Lean

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Approved

Runtime: 116 min

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From every angle this is a superb achievement. Read full review

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

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. Read full review

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Bosley Crowther

A superb piece of motion picture art and, beyond doubt, one of the finest screen translations of a literary classic ever made. Read full review

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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. Read full review

Don Druker

Alec Guinness as the master pickpocket Fagin is the high point of David Lean's 1948 version of the Dickens classic. Read full review

Josh Larsen

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. Read full review

Pauline Kael

In the person of Alec Guinness, Fagin the Viper, the corrupter of youth, has a sly, depraved charm.

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