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Oliver Twist [videorecording (DVD)].

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Criterion Collection, 1998.

DVD OLI 1948 Dra

Orphans -- Drama.

London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 32.

Alternate title:

David Lean's Oliver Twist [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (116 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

Based on the novel by Charles Dickens.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1948.

At head of container title: David Lean's.

Includes original theatrical trailer.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Screen play by David Lean and Stanley Haynes ; produced by Ronald Neame ; directed by David Lean.

John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan, Henry Stephenson, Mary Clare, Anthony Newley, Josephine Stuart, Ralph Truman, Kathleen Harrison and Gibb McLaughlin.

"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 form cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home. Here Alec Guinness is the quintessential Fagin."--Container.

Melodrama and tearjerker films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Oliver Twist. Film adaptations.

Lean, David, 1908-1991.

Davies, John Howard, 1939-2011.

Newton, Robert, 1905-1956.

Guinness, Alec, 1914-2000.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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