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Released
1968 · FILM

Oliver!

Orphaned boy Oliver escapes a grim workhouse and joins a gang of street thieves, hoping to find freedom and a true home while battling the ruthless master pickpocket who will stop at nothing to keep him under control.

“Much much more than a musical!”

Directed by
Carol Reed
Written by
Lionel Bart, Vernon Harris
Rated
MPA · G
Runtime
153 min
DramaFamilyMusical

Synopsis

A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' *Oliver Twist*, a classic story about an orphan who escapes from the workhouse and joins a group of boys led by the Artful Dodger, who are taught to become pickpockets by the master thief Fagin.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Ralph KemplenShot by Oswald MorrisScored by Lionel BartDesigned by John Box

Box Office

1968 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$37.4M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$37.4M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Oliverde
  • Oliver !fr

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