Oliver Twist (1948)
- Directed by
- David Lean
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.6 of 10 from 258 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A young orphan named Oliver Twist runs away from a workhouse and falls in with a gang of pickpockets in London. He is caught between the criminal group and the authorities who try to rescue him.
grimgrittytensemelancholicvisually starkclassic storytellingbritishperiod
What happens
Oliver Twist is a 1948 British film and the second of David Lean's two film adaptations of Charles Dickens novels. Following his 1946 version of Great Expectations, Lean re-assembled much of the same team for his adaptation of Dickens' 1838 novel, including producers Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan, cinematographer Guy Green, designer John Bryan and editor Jack Harris. Lean's then-wife, Kay Walsh, who had collaborated on the screenplay for Great Expectations, played the role of Nancy. John Howard Davies was cast as Oliver, while Alec Guinness portrayed Fagin and Robert Newton played Bill Sykes (Bill Sikes in the novel). In 1999, the British Film Institute placed it at 46th in its list of the top 100 British films. In 2005 it was named in the BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The Third Man (1949)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.