Oliver!

1968, UK, Carol Reed, 153 min.

With Oliver Reed, Mark Lester, Ron Moody, and Shani Wallis

“Let him be or I’ll put my mark on you and I don’t care for no consequences.”

Carol Reed (The Third Man) directed this vibrant musical version of Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist adapted from the stage hit, and it won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Picture.

“Marvelous sets that bring to crawly, scratchy life the streets and market places of early 19th-century London. They recall a movie art—the manufacture of fantasy out of paint, plaster, and scaffolding—that has become so expensive that few corporations except Disneyland can pursue it with style.” — Vincent Canby, The New York Times