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Title Oliver! / Columbia Pictures presents a Romulus Production.

Publication Info. Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, [1998]
©1968

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 Talbott Media  DVD 36    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Edition 30th anniversary tribute ed.
Description 1 videodisc (approximately 153 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description digital
optical
Dolby digital 5.1
video file
System Details DVD format; widescreen format, presented in the original theatrical aspect ratio (ca. 2.35:1); Dolby digital 5.1.
Note Music, book, and lyrics by Lionel Bart; freely adapted from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist; screenplay by Vernon Harris.
Cast Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe, Shani Wallis, Mark Lester, Jack Wild.
Credits Produced by John Woolf; directed by Carol Reed; musical supervision and arrangements by John Green; choreography by Onna White.
Note Originally produced as a motion picture in 1968.
Awards Academy Award for Best Picture, 1968.
Audience Rated G.
Note Special features include interactive menus, scene selections, photo gallery, and featurette.
Summary The story is set in 19th-century London where young orphan Oliver is left to fend for himself until he is befriended by a band of street urchins who quickly train him in their craft. But Oliver is not content to be a pickpocket for he knows that life holds great joys. But true happiness cannot be stolen; it must be earned.
Language In English or French, with English and French subtitles; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Genre/Form Musical films.
Musical films.
Feature films.
Feature films.
Subject Orphans -- England -- London -- Drama.
Orphans.
England -- London.
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Pickpockets -- England -- London -- Drama.
Pickpockets.
London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Drama.
Genre/Form Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Drama.
Added Author Harris, Vernon, 1905-1999, screenwriter.
Moody, Ron, actor.
Wallis, Shani, actor.
Reed, Oliver, 1938-1999, actor.
Secombe, Harry, actor.
Lester, Mark, 1958- actor.
Wild, Jack, 1952-2006, actor.
Woolf, John, 1913-1999, producer.
Reed, Carol, 1906-1976, director.
Green, Johnny, 1908-1989, arranger, conductor.
White, Onna, choreographer.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Oliver Twist.
Bart, Lionel. Oliver!
Columbia Pictures.
Romulus Productions.
Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)
Added Title Oliver! (Motion picture) https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003103116
ISBN 076781326X
Music No. 02137 Columbia TriStar Home Video