GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

elvircorhodzic OLIVER TWIST is indeed a wonderful movie and this adaptation of the popular novel for me is the best. The director is responsible rounded story, so the biggest fans of the novel (I am one of them) are satisfied. This is a very warm story of poverty, oppression and greed in London in the 19th century. The film highlights the beautiful photograph and a very good scenery. I am fascinated by the game of shadows in the dark. Characterization is good also.All these elements affect the atmosphere of the film. At one point the main character flees through the narrow streets. I'm out of your comfortable armchairs got up and tried to run away with him. I was 12 years old. The opening scene of the movie is really impressive. A child born in a dark atmosphere. The boy takes us through the dark corners of the city, or rather growing up, to finally come to light. A smile and a hug of Oliver Twist is not forgotten.John Howard Davies as Oliver Twist was the boy who gave the film a soul. On the one hand the fragile and delicate, on the other hand shrewd, courageous and witty orphan, that's hard not to love.Alec Guinness as Fagin, stupid is to look at something in the film was never mentioned. The film was banned due to the negative display of leaders of the pickpockets. Fagin is one of the most picturesque characters shown in the film at all. He is immensely clever, insidious and oddly appealing character. I never would have described as the sole villain. Fagin is the personification of the underworld. Poverty and misery create such characters. I would be satisfied when this film would not have a person to villain.However, on one side is, Bill Sykes (Robert Newton) cunning hooligan and on the other side, Mr. Brownlow (Henry Stephenson) gentle and good-natured gentleman. Both play a role in the life of a troubled orphan. Social extremes.

Eric Stevenson A common complaint of today's movies is that there is nothing original and everything is just a sequel, remake or based on something else. It's weird because it really has always been like that, at least as far back as the 1940's. We had tons of classic novels to work on and this film was no exception. I feel bad for not having read the original Dickens classic, but anyone should enjoy this. I am understanding the story more and more through these adaptations. This one wasn't quite as good as "Oliver!", but it definitely ranked as one of the best.I think the main reason is that there are a lot of truly intense moments in this. We get to see most of the characters engage in some very serious and rather violent scenes. Tame by today's standards, but these are some pretty powerful things as we see even Oliver defend himself well. I agree that Fagin does seem like a Jewish stereotype here. It's great how it all leads up to the biggest climax in any "Oliver Twist" version. Dodger doesn't do that much, but he still gets in some great scenes. Oliver Twist himself isn't focused on that much in the second half, but the characters are still interesting enough for you to care about. Alec Guinness is certainly unrecognizable here. ***1/2.

mark.waltz That old rascal, Fagin, and his evil band of cut-throats, thieves, prostitutes and blackmailers are out for no good in this definitive extremely detailed version of Dicken's novel where a real twist is given to the character of Fagin thanks to Alec Guennis's superb visualization of the usually lovable rogue.Original sketches from the book were used to make up the look of each of the characters, and it is obvious that a great detail was taken to ensure their authenticity. Yes, the obvious anti-Semitism is there in the creation of the hawk-nosed Fagin, so hideously ugly both physically and personally there is no risk of him getting sympathy as he would in the later musical version. "I'm what is known as a miser", he tells the young Oliver (John Howard Davies) and that is the softest he ever He is even more of a villain than Robert Newton's Bill Sikes who is totally played down until near the conclusion. Guennis, one of the greatest actors of the 20th Century, takes on a name for himself as the man of a thousand faces, taking over where the original Lon Chaney had left off after the end of the silent era.Davies is quite good as Oliver; Kay Walsh makes Nancy harder than others who have usually played her as a good-hearted "sister" to the pickpockets. Francis L. Sullivan looks every inch his title of "Beedle" as the hideous Mr. Bumble with Mary Clare's nasty Widow Corny starting off sweet to get Bumble to the alter then becoming a hideous harpy when she gets the job done. Henry Stephenson is delightfully noble as the kindly Mr. Brownlow with Amy Veness a tearful bucket of love as the kindly Mrs. Bedwin. As for Anthony Newley, he suffers from being slightly too old to be believable as the Artful Dodger, getting only a few key scenes. At times, the villainy becomes so great that you expect Fagin and Sikes to run into Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett and partake in one of their meat pies.There's no cheery "Consider Yourself" attitude to falsify the desperate lives of the poor orphans or the young boys forced and manipulated into a life of crime. Only when Oliver enters Brownlow's house does he find the answer to the later musical's question of "Where Is Love?" as he finds it in the arms of Mrs. Bedwin and the sympathy of Mr. Brownlow. Characters not seen in the musical version but important to the original novel are part of the story here which gives the film a more authentic feel. As produced by Ronald Neame (who later directed the 1970 musical version of "A Christmas Carol") and directed by "Great Expectations'" David Lean, the film is a treat for the eyes, a faithful rendition of an all-time family classic that shows how crime not only doesn't pay, but it destroys the soul as well.

Jackson Booth-Millard I've seen the Ron Moody musical version, and I saw the Sir Ben Kingsley/Roman Polanski version, but this of course is the most acclaimed version of the classic Charles Dickens tale, from director Sir David Lean (Great Expectations, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia). You probably know the story pretty well already, but just in case, I'll go through it. Basically, a Mother (Josephine Stuart) struggled to give birth in the workhouse, but she did, and died shortly after. 11 years later, the boy, Oliver Twist (John Howard Davies) is the orphan living with many lonely children, and Mr. Bumble (Francis L. Sullivan) sends him to a work house after he said "Please, sir, I want some more" (gruel). After a little while he runs away and ends up in London, soon meeting pick pocket, the Artful Dodger (Anthony Newley) who takes him to the "care and comfort" of Jewish criminal Fagin (Sir Alec Guinness). The rest of the film sees Oliver trying to pick pocket, and getting to many scrapes, with the likes of Nancy (Kay Walsh) and her abusive lover Bill Sikes (Robert Newton), Chief of Police (Maurice Denham) and Police Official (Henry Edwards), and many others, till he finds his real place of comfort, and all the bad people get what they deserve. Also starring Ralph Truman as Monks, Henry Stephenson as Mr. Brownlow and Diana Dors as Charlotte. Apparently Guinness's portrayal of Fagin was considered anti-Semetic, being banned in America, I think it is the best portrayal of the character, "My Dear", lol. Other cast members, including young Davies (who would go on to produce and direct shows such as Fawlty Towrers and Mr. Bean) are very good, the story is very well put together and feels very dark, a very good adaptation by one of the finest British directors. It was nominated the BAFTA for Best British Film. Sir Alec Guinness was number 12 on The 50 Greatest British Actors, he was number 2 on Britain's Finest Actors, and he was number 11 on The World's Greatest Actor. Very good!