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Oliver Twist

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Oliver Twist

  • 1948
  • United Kingdom
  • Fiction
  • English
  • English
  • 116 mins
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Expressionistic noir photography suffuses David Lean’s Oliver Twist with a nightmarish quality, fitting its bleak, industrial setting. In Dickens’ classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home. Here Alec Guinness is the quintessential Fagin, his controversial performance fully restored in Criterion’s digital transfer.

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Director
David Lean
Writer
David Lean, Stanley Haynes
Producer
Ronald Neame

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