☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ½
Oliver Twist (1948) -- D. Lean
David Lean's striking
film of Dickens' novel is grimy yet handsome, full of ugly characters
beautifully presented. But seriously, the cinematography and settings here (as
with the earlier Great Expectations) are like etchings by Durer come to life in
industrial Britain. Stereotyping aside, Alec Guinness submerges himself into
Fagin, countering Robert Newton's drunken brutish Bill Sykes with a craftier
evil type. Lean's direction carries us to a fine (and satisfying) crescendo.
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