OLIVER TWIST/GREAT EXPECTATIONS Synopsis
OLIVER TWIST. A startlingly real, atmospheric evocation of childhood terrors and the evils of poverty. Innocent orphan Oliver is shanghaied into a gang of child thieves by blackguard Bill Sykes. Alec Guinness is masterful as the Jewish kingpin of boy thieves, Fagin. GREAT EXPECTATIONS. The film that set the standard for all Dickens adaptations. Director David Lean’s early masterpiece plunges us into the story of an impoverished underdog, Pip, trying to defy the rigid caste system of Victorian England.
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