imanhassan-53889 Oliver is a musical starring two famous child actors Jack Wild and Mark Lester, about an orphan named Oliver seeking to find a home and family but trouble afoot as Sykes, a greedy man takes oliver for granted and kidnaps him to get money. He meets another orphan named dodger who lives with other orphans and their guardian Fagan, they live together peacfully with no labor, in contrast to where Oliver originally lived. As you can see in this movie, there's more singing than talking hence its a called a musical.This movie has extremely good set just like Mary Poppins, i am amazed at how many people worked to get this movie done. The dancing, the singing, the locations, you could tell they spent top dollars to get everything. Whats also great about this movie is the songs (of course) its what makes the movie go. My favorite is the I do anything sung by Jack Wild along with Consider yourself which was also sung by him.As good as this can get, this film is long, and i mean REALLY LONG. 2 hrs and 33 mins to be exact. they broke the movie to 2 parts as if it was an act of a play. and at times when there not doing anything and just talk, it can get pretty boring. but i digress, Oliver is a great film and worth the watch if you like musicals, or for a school day. i give it 8/10

Alicia (allkrueger) This film is based on the book Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Dickens knew how to write an extraordinary book. No matter how long the story is by Dickens I can sit down and read it from beginning to end. The film does the book justice because the directing, acting, cinematography and singing is great. The plot of the film is that an orphan named Oliver is taken in by people of questionable morals. Oliver is not the smartest boy in the world and in my opinion, he causes Nancy's death. You need to watch the film to see what I mean. The actors are so talented in this film. Some of the singing was dubbed by playback singers. I do not care if it is really the actors or actresses singing or not. The production is professional and extremely well done. I could watch this movie over and over and over again.

gavin6942 Musical adaptation about an orphan (Mark Lester) who runs away from an orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor (Ron Moody).Not being a fan of Charles Dickens (blasphemy?) and being really skeptical on musicals, I had some rather low expectations on this one. Now, I think it could have been trimmed a little bit (the opening music and credits add a good ten minutes to the length). But that is about the only bad thing I can say.The songs are quite good, the acting is good, the dancing is good... and all the parts we like about the story (without the dry writing) is evident here. The "please sir, I want some more" scene... and, of course, a very crafty Fagin, who is an important central character.

SnoopyStyle Olive Twist (Mark Lester) is one of the many orphans working in the Dickensian workhouse. He asks for more gruel angering Bumble who sells him into servitude to Mr. Sowerberry the undertaker. Facing more punishment, he escapes to London where he meets the Artful Dodger. He's brought to old criminal Fagin, the leader of the gang of pickpocketing kids.It's a grand production with some great songs. The translation to the big screen worked out for this movie. It's a bit dark for a kids movie unlike 'Annie' or 'Wizard of Oz'. There is a darker moodiness in the story and music. It's still one of the great movie musicals and needs to be seen by lovers of the genre.