Word: shani
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OLIVER! They've removed Dickens' reformist zeal, but substituted some colorful period costumes, some excellent songs by Lionel Bart and some perfectly stunning sets by John Box. The result is the best musical of 1968. Carol Reed directs a large cast (including Ron Moody, Shani Wallis and Mark Lester as Oliver) with wizardly precision...
OLIVER! Dickens' reformist outrage is gone, but in its place are some lovely period costumes, some excellent songs by Lionel Bart, and a collection of perfectly stunning sets designed by John Box. Carol Reed directs a large cast (including Ron Moody, Shani Wallis and Mark Lester as Oliver) with wizardly precision...
OLIVER. A gleaming Christmas package of a musical. Dickens' reformist outrage is gone, but in its place are some lovely period costumes, some excellent songs by Lionel Bart and a collection of perfectly stunning sets designed by John Box. Carol Reed directs a large cast (including Ron Moody, Shani Wallis and Mark Lester as Oliver) with wizardry precision...
Next to the base figures, such exalted ones as Oliver (Mark Lester), Nancy (Shani Wallis) and other do-gooders inevitably seem insipid trifles. But even the knaves are topped by two performers: Bill Sikes' companion, a mangy, miserable mongrel, is the least appealing, most memorable dog since the Hound of the Baskervilles. And Jack Wild, 15, as The Artful Dodger, has polished gravel for a voice, a Toby jug for a head, and the suggestion of fame for a future. As well might be. The last boy to play the Dodger onscreen was a cockney-of-the-walk...