Oliver Twist/Great expectations [videorecording]
2003
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A David Lean/Charles Dickens double bill. 'Oliver Twist' is Lean's classic adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel. Oliver (John Howard Davis) is a young orphan boy who is expelled from the workhouse run by Mr Bumbel (Francis L. Sullivan). After becoming an apprentice to an undertaker Oliver decides to run away to London, only to meet the Artful Dodger (Anthony Newley) and fall amongst his gang of thieves, led by the scheming Fagin (Alec Guinness). Remade many times including a musical in 1968. In 'Great Expectations' orphan Pip (Anthony Wager) befriends an escaped convict before being elevated to higher circles as the companion of mad Miss Havisham and her niece Estella (Jean Simmons), with whom the boy quickly falls in love. When the adult Pip (John Mills) discovers a mysterious benefactor has paved the way for him to become a gentleman, he assumes Miss Havisham is responsible.
Main title:
Oliver Twist/Great expectations [videorecording] / director, David Lean; producer, Ronald Neame; writer, Ronald Neame; writer, Kay Walsh; writer, Anthony Havelock-Allan; writer, Cecil McGivern.
Author:
Lean, David, 1908-1991, directorGoehr, Walter, musicDavies, John Howard, 1939-2011, actorGuinness, Alec, 1914-2000, actorNewton, Robert, 1905-1956, actorDickens, Charles, 1812-1870, book author
Imprint:
ITV DVD, 2003.
Collation:
1 videodisc (224 min.) : b&w.
Notes:
SET2.Based on the novels by Charles Dickens.Great expectations starring: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Alec Guinness, Bernard Miles, Francis L. Sullivan, Martita Hunt, Jean Simmons.Oliver Twist starring: Robert Newton, Alex Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan, Henry Stephenson, John Howard Davies, Anthony Newley.Made in 1946.Credits: music, Walter Goehr.Boxed.
Performers:
Cast: Cast: John Howard Davies, Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Francis L. Sullivan, Jean Simmons, Kay Walsh, Mary Clare, Diana Dors, W.G. Fay, Kathleen Harrison, Gibb McLaughlin, Anthony Newley, John Mills, Henry Stephenson, Valerie Hobson, Josephine Stuart, Bernard Miles, Ralph Truman, Amy Veness, Finlay Currie, Martita Hunt, Anthony Wager.
Audience:
BBFC code: PG.
System details:
DVD.
Dewey class:
791.437
Language:
English
BRN:
909298
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