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1948 |
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DRAMA
COSTUME
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UK |
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BW |
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105 |
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In Victorian London, an orphan boy (John Howard Davies, pictured right) falls in with a gang of junior thieves.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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| Dark, nightmarish and far more cinematic than Carol Reed's musical version, this film is second only to David Lean's Great Expectations as a filming of Dickens. The acting is tremendous throughout. Some may feel that Alec Guinness's portrayal of Fagin is anti-semitic, and the film's American release was deferred until 1951 after protests by Jewish by pressure-groups; but Guinness is faithful to the character that Dickens wrote. Some sequences, including the opening storm and the murder of Nancy, have a poetic grandeur; and Lean's style - a mixture of German expressionism and film noir - is wonderfully effective. |
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, Alec Guinness 