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Oliver Twist (1948)

Directed by David Lean · Cinematography by Guy Green

Approved105 min62 frames

DramaAdventureCrimeComedy

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What is Oliver Twist about?

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

Oliver Twist is a 1948 British film and the second of David Lean's two film adaptations of Charles Dickens novels. Following his 1946 version of Great Expectations, Lean re-assembled much of the same team for his adaptation of Dickens' 1838 novel, including producers Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Allan, cinematographer Guy Green, designer John Bryan and editor Jack Harris. Lean's then-wife, Kay Walsh, who had collaborated on the screenplay for Great Expectations, played the role of Nancy. John Howard Davies was cast as Oliver, while Alec Guinness portrayed Fagin and Robert Newton played Bill Sykes.

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What does the cinematography of Oliver Twist look like?

Across 62 sampled frames, Oliver Twist builds its coverage from medium shots (39% of the sample), with close-ups (26%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Guy Green keeps 50% of it in hard-edged, low-key light. 66% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Vintage glass shapes the frame. The production design places the film in the 1940s.

What is the color palette of Oliver Twist?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Oliver Twist (1948) are #030303, #303030, #6a6a6a, #949494, #cdcdcd, #fefefe — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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