Oliver! (1968)
Much Much More Than a Musical!
Genre : Drama, Family, Music
Runtime : 2H 33M
Director : Carol Reed
Writer : Vernon Harris
Synopsis
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.
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Majitel půjčovny lodiček a převozník Ryba sídlí celý život v domku u řeky, která se často stává osudnou pro plavce i sebevrahy. Protože jsou však Rybovou zásluhou mnozí tonoucí zachráněni, stává se Ryba velmi populární osobností celého kraje.
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