Muts-have movies: Oliver Twist (1948)
AUGUST 28, 2005
Marc Lee reviews the classics that every film-lover will want to own
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Oliver Twist
By Harry Forbes Catholic News Service
NEW YORK (CNS) -- If Charles Dickens were alive today, and had royalties
from all the stage, film and television adaptations of "Oliver Twist" (TriStar),
he'd be as wealthy as the queen herself.
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The child star who considered himself at home playing Oliver
September 17, 2005
By Nigel Reynolds, Arts Correspondent
It is one of the most famous child roles in the cinema but Barney Clarke
has taken it all in his 12-year-old stride.
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'We have a hell of a good time together'
September 30, 2005
Ronald Harwood, scriptwriter of The Pianist and now Oliver Twist,
tells Jasper Rees about his friendship with the remarkable Roman Polanski
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Lean's 'Oliver' is best twist of tale
October 1, 2005
By Gary Arnold The Washington Times
Filmmakers who reach back for well-known source material -- as director
Roman Polanski and screenwriter Ronald Harwood have done, with dismal results,
in their new movie version of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist" -- face an
additional sort of jeopardy in the DVD era.Every unsatisfactory replica risks
prompt comparison with the superior adaptations that remain close at hand
in the video market.
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Oliver (no twist)
Polanski's version of Dickens classic leaves one hungry for more
September 30, 2005
By Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Does the world honestly need another movie version of ''Oliver Twist"? After
David Lean's superbly atmospheric 1948 adaptation of the Dickens classic
and the glossy, Oscar-winning 1968 musical ''Oliver!," arguably not.
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Please sir, can I have some recognition? The real Oliver Twist is revealed at last
September 04, 2005
Charles Dickens was thought to have based his most famous character
on his own early life - but now a literary detective claims to have discovered
the book's true inspiration. Anthony Barnes and Stephen Khan report
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