Oliver! (30th Anniversary Edition)
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VHS Movie Reviews of Oliver! (30th Anniversary Edition)
Movie Review: "Oliver" still works for me
Summary: 4 Stars
I saw this version of "Oliver" in the theatre years ago and, once again, I am enjoying it. I particularly enjoyed the music, especially the one in which Fagin is "reviewing the situation." That song applies to many situations in life, I have found.Movie Review: Oliver
Summary: 1 Stars
With time passed, I never realized just how short this movie is yet more so not a good choice movie to play in the presence of children period. Movie Review: OLIVER
Summary: 4 Stars
I love this movie. The Artful Dodger is so good. The character Fagan also plays a fantastic part. It is long and actually has an intermission. I had no problems with this disc. Movie Review: Oliver
Summary: 1 Stars
I cannot review this product as I have not yet received it. It is now 9 days overdue, and I paid for it over amonth ago.Movie Review: Considerably better than it's modern reputation
Summary: 5 Stars
Carol Reed's screen version of Lionel Bart's musical version of Oliver Twist seems to fall into the love it or hate it category. Many find stodgy and drawn-out and even its admirers have to admit it is not without its faults. Some of the frenetic moments are not best timed and at times the performances are pitched more for the theatre than for the screen. Nonetheless, it is one of the very few successful British musicals and as such has much to recommend it.
Among a colourful cast, Harry Secombe's Mr Bumble is right out of Dickens' pages while Ron Moody's Fagin and Jack Wild's Artful Dodger are an engaging pair. As Bill Sykes, Oliver Reed makes a (by his standards) restrained and effective villain - his first appearance is a marvellously handled moment. If his uncle's direction is sometimes uncertain, the production values are sumptuous, with John Box's intricately haphazard sets and Phyllis Dalton's intelligently designed costumes coming over particularly well.
Bart's score is unusually strong and Onna White's choreography, while not without its tired and contrived moments, is considerably more energetic and enjoyable than is the norm for these shores. Indeed, Consider Yourself, which seems to call upon the entire city of London, is an outstandingly staged number by any standards. With the exception of some ill-advised string work on As Long As He Needs Me that sounds more South Seas than South London, Johnny Green's orchestrations are for the most part fine.
With Reed and cinematographer Oswald Morris both show a good eye for the Scope frame, although the colour somewhat muted - it's a feature of Morris' work that the original colours were deliberately graded to reflect colour prints from the Victorian era.