Rent Oliver! (1968)
3.8 of 5 from 188 ratings
2h 24min
- General info
- Available formats
- 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:
- Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe, Jack Wild, Hugh Griffith, Joseph O'Conor, Peggy Mount, Leonard Rossiter, Hylda Baker, Kenneth Cranham, Megs Jenkins, Sheila White, Wensley Pithey, James Hayter, Elizabeth Knight, Fred Emney, Edwin Finn, Roy Evans
- Directors:
- Carol Reed
- 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, 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, 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:
- 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
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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