Oliver!
Much Much More Than a Musical!
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Country
Production
Budget
$10 000 000
Box office
$37 400 000
Director
Actors
Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe, Mark Lester, Jack Wild, Joseph O'Conor, Peggy Mount, Hylda Baker, Megs Jenkins
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
John Woolf
Camera operator
Oswald Morris
Composer
Artist
John Box, Roy Walker, Robert Cartwright
Audition
Jenia Reissar
Editing
Ralph Kemplen, Denis Johnson
Whole Team (48)
Whole Team (48)
Short description
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
What's left behind the scenes
- Approximately 5,000 candidates were auditioned before Mark Lester was given the role of the main character.
- The film was shot in July 1967, although the plot sometimes required showing snow. The snowballs shown on screen were made from styrofoam, salt, and mashed potatoes.
- Charlotte, who works at a funeral home, has a hairstyle that became popular in the 1960s and 1970s.
- Immediately after the scene where schoolgirls are pushed into the pool, a family exits a house, and the woman's attire is more reminiscent of the 1890s than the 1930s.
- Ron Moody (1924-2015) deliberately softened the Jewish accent of the East London native during filming to be understood by American audiences and avoid accusations of antisemitism.
- While filming the scene where Oliver looks at Fagin's treasures, director Carol Reed was not impressed with Mark Lester's facial expression. During the reshoot, he put a white rabbit in his pocket and stood behind the camera. When Ron Moody opened the treasure chest, Reed pulled the rabbit out of his pocket and filmed Lester's reaction.
- Oliver Reed (1938-1999) constantly remained in the character of Bill Sikes, so Mark Lester and the other children were very afraid of him.
- While performing the song "Where Is Love?", Mark Lester was only able to cry when presented with a freshly cut onion.
- Oliver Reed's bull terrier had its tail fixed under its body – it was wagging it with too much enthusiasm.
- The entire film was shot entirely in a studio.
- On the way to London, Oliver climbs onto a carriage traveling along a road covered in bitumen. Roads like these first appeared in Great Britain in 1902, while the film's action takes place in the 1800s.
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Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
