Oliver!

In adapting Lionel Bart's lavish musical for the screen, director Carol Reed tempered the sticky sentimentality with suitably Dickensian scenes of squalor and gave nephew Oliver Reed one of the juiciest roles of his career as the murderous Bill Sykes.

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