Rent Oliver! (1968)

3.8 of 5 from 189 ratings
2h 24min
Rent Oliver! (aka Lionel Bart's Oliver!) Online DVD & Blu-ray Rental
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Synopsis:
Young Oliver Twist (Mark Lester) is an orphan who escapes the cheerless life of the workhouse and takes to the streets of 19th-Century London. He's immediately taken in by a band of street urchins, headed by the lovable villain Fagin (Ron Moody), his fiendish henchman Bill Sikes (Oliver Reed) and his loyal apprentice The Artful Dodger (Jack Wild). Through his education in the fine points of pick-pocketing, Oliver makes away with an unexpected treasure...a home and a family of his own.
Actors:
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Directors:
Producers:
John Woolf
Writers:
Lionel Bart, Vernon Harris, Charles Dickens
Others:
Bob Jones, John Cox, Terence Marsh, Phyllis Dalton, Vernon Dixon, John Green, John Box, Oswald Morris, Ralph Kemplen, Ken Muggleston, Shepperton Studio Sound Department
Aka:
Lionel Bart's Oliver!
Studio:
Columbia Tristar
Genres:
Action & Adventure, Children & Family, Classics, Comedy, Drama, Music & Musicals
Collections:
12 Scrooges of Christmas, Acting Up: British Actors at the Oscars, Award Winners, Cinema Paradiso's 2024 Centenary Club: Part 1, Films & TV by topic, Films to Watch If You Like..., Fred and Ginger: Duets and Solos, Getting to Know..., Holidays Film Collection, Introducing a British Film Family, Oscar Nominations Competition 2024, The Third Man At 75, Top 10 Best Picture Follow-Ups, Top 10 Films By Year, Top 100 BFI Films, Top Films, Top Films of 1968, What to Watch Next If You Liked Scrooge, What to Watch Next If You Liked Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Awards:

1969 Oscar Best Picture

1969 Oscar Best Director

1969 Oscar Best Art Direction

1969 Oscar Best Sound

1969 Oscar Best Music Original or Adaptation Musical Score

BBFC:
Release Date:
06/02/2006
Run Time:
144 minutes
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 5.1, German Dolby Digital 5.1, Italian Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles:
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 2.35:1
Colour:
Colour
Bonus:
  • Behind-the-scenes featurette
  • Theatrical trailer
  • Vintage Advertising and production photos
BBFC:
Release Date:
21/10/2013
Run Time:
153 minutes
Languages:
English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French Dolby Digital 1.0, German Dolby Digital 5.1, Italian Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0
Subtitles:
Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 2.35:1
Colour:
Colour
BLU-RAY Regions:
(0) All
Bonus:
  • Original Behind the Scenes Featurette
  • Oliver! Meeting Oliver
  • Oliver! Meeting Fagin
BBFC:
Release Date:
13/09/2021
Run Time:
153 minutes
Languages:
Czech LPCM Mono, English Dolby Atmos, English Dolby TrueHD 7.1, English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono, German DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Mandarin LPCM Mono, Portuguese LPCM Stereo, Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0, Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Thai LPCM Mono
Subtitles:
Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovakian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
DVD Regions:
Region 0 (All)
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 2.35:1
Colour:
Colour
BLU-RAY Regions:
(0) All

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Reviews (1) of Oliver!

Oliv-yeah! - Oliver! review by AM

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14/06/2020

I like this flick a lot. I was surprised at how many of the tunes I knew already as they've crossed over into popular consciousness. Oliver Reed is simply terrifying as Bill Sikes. What an actor - he should have been the most celebrated actor of his generation, if it wasn't for his well-documented personal demons.

Ron Moody's Fagin is also fantastic - and his rendition of "reviewing the situation" probably the film's highlight.

A word too for little Oliver - Mark Lester following many child-stars into obscurity but he shines in this.

A triumph. Musical Bananas!

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