Oliver! (1968)
Directed by Carol Reed
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
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I never see "The Taming of the Shrew" anymore without vaguely longing to hear the Cole Porter score for "Kiss Me, Kate." "My Fair Lady" exists on its own.
Oscar Nominations: 2 Story and Screenplay (Original): Franco Solinas and Gillo Pontecorvo Oscar Context: The directing Oscar went to Carol Reed, at his third nomination, for the musical movie “Oliver!” and the Writing Oscar to Mel Brooks for “The Producers.”
It is very nearly universal entertainment, one of those rare films like " The Wizard of Oz " that appeals in many ways to all sorts of people.
He also helmed productions such as The Fallen Idol and Oliver!
Directed by Carol Reed ( Oliver! ), the starkly beautiful black-and-white cinematography lays an unsettled gloom over Vienna's cobblestone streets, narrow and rain-slicked, and the zither score, by Anton Karas, adds a discordant note.
Sir Carol Reed ("Bank Holiday"/"The Third Man"/"Odd Man Out"), a renown director in decline in his later years, bases this sugary version of Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist (one of many film versions since the silent one in 1909, with David Lean's straight dramatic version by far the best of Dickens) on composer Lionel Bart's 1960 witty English musical stage version and later Broadway hit.
The movie was directed by Carol Reed, who has made films both bad ("The Agony and The Ecstasy") and beautiful ("The Third Man" and "Night Train").
Reed gives us the seedy Underworld of London (with shadows as long and cobblestones as rough as the Vienna of his " The Third Man ").
The Third Man it's not.
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Still, Oliver is well acted by Mark Lester (who played the youngest boy in Jack Clayton's " Our Mother's House ").
Sir Carol Reed ("Bank Holiday"/"The Third Man"/"Odd Man Out"), a renown director in decline in his later years, bases this sugary version of Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist (one of many film versions since the silent one in 1909, with David Lean's straight dramatic version by far the best of Dickens) on composer Lionel Bart's 1960 witty English musical stage version and later Broadway hit.
I never see "The Taming of the Shrew" anymore without vaguely longing to hear the Cole Porter score for "Kiss Me, Kate." "My Fair Lady" exists on its own.