They are issuing Oliver Twist and Pickwick Club from Charles Dickens in original serialized form.
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"Oliver Twist" is motored by a thumping four-on-the-floor bass kick, while "Cemeteries" is a percussion-less montage of bells, birds and chords.
Freeborn also put his skills to work in "Oliver Twist, " "The Bridge on the River Kwai, " "The Omen, " four "Superman" films, "Top Secret!"
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Another notable success came in 1948 when he devised the make-up that Alec Guinness used to portray Fagin in David Lean's film of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist.
It will include David Lean's Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948), as well as rarely seen silent adaptations like Scrooge - or Marley's Ghost (1901) and David Copperfield (1913).
Go read (or reread) Oliver Twist.
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This newcomer gives the screen version of Janet Fitch's novel an emotional grounding it doesn't always deserve as she moves through the several stages of a hard-luck role that plays like "Oliver Twist" in Los Angeles (in a production that starts to get silly when it moves to Malibu).
Within hours of landing, I had sat at the organ upon which George Frideric Handel played the London premiere of "Messiah, " stood in the poky little room where Charles Dickens wrote "Oliver Twist, " and accepted my award upon the very spot that the residence of Lord Peter Wimsey had once stood, at 110A Piccadilly.
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Oliver Twist also highlights the rank poverty of the inner cities - particularly when the plot moves to Jacob's Island, " the filthiest, the strangest, the most extraordinary of the many localities that are hidden in London " where the houses were "so filthy, so confined, that the air would seem to be too tainted even for the dirt and squalor".
An amalgam of "Oliver Twist, " "The Three Musketeers" and Bollywood extravagance, it's the saga -- mainly in English, plus some subtitled Hindi -- of a wretchedly poor Muslim boy, played as a young man by Dev Patel, who pulls himself up by his brains instead of his bootstraps, and gets a shot at becoming a millionaire on a wondrously garish Indian TV quiz show.
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