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.
Direction
Carol Reed stages massive musical numbers with gritty realism.
Acting
Ron Moody's Oscar-nominated Fagin: pathetic, terrifying, heartbreaking.
Production
Massive practical London sets that reek of authentic squalor.
Director
Carol Reed
Ron Moody
Fagin
Shani Wallis
Nancy
Oliver Reed
Bill Sikes
Harry Secombe
Mr. Bumble
Mark Lester
Oliver
Jack Wild
The Artful Dodger
Joseph O'Conor
Mr. Brownlow
Peggy Mount
Mrs. Bumble
Hylda Baker
Mrs. Sowerberry
Megs Jenkins
Mrs. Bedwin
Leonard Rossiter
Sowerberry
James Hayter
Mr. Jessop
Sheila White
Bet
Kenneth Cranham
Noah Claypole
Hugh Griffith
The Magistrate
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mark Lester's singing voice was partially dubbed because his own voice was changing during filming; you'll never spot the seams.
This beat 2001: A Space Odyssey for Best Picture—an upset so controversial it still fuels film Twitter wars.
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