1968 · musical · drama
Oliver! (1968)
Directed by Carol Reed2h 33m1968
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
Our read: Oliver! (1968) (1968) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded musical · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured musical / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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