the pure innocence is so overwhelming. they just dont make movies like this anymore. beautiful song, beautiful scene!

@toffeebear5585

9 ай бұрын

Agreed😢

@joshhunt4146

6 ай бұрын

They don’t make them like this anymore because no one will see them unfortunately

@michaeljohnson-thiman4975

5 ай бұрын

So true

@fiddleandfart

4 ай бұрын

Sad...! And why not?

@your_local_idiot__

4 ай бұрын

Ah yes, stealing murder and kidnaping. I just love me some innosence :3

The guy playing the flute in the tree was John Heawood, a great friend of mine. He was a well-known choreographer, originally from Canada, and choreographed Julie Andrews in The Boyfriend musical on Broadway. I worked many times with him on many stage shows. He died back in the 1990s, but I still remember him with affection.

@gazza1196

6 ай бұрын

He was superb. R I p John..best wishes to you

@sameaston9587

5 ай бұрын

Such sweet words for a friend :}

@TayBee_123

5 ай бұрын

Wow thank you so much for sharing your wonderful stories about John, I’d love to have been a fly on the wall back in those times during show business, I’m sure you have so many incredible memories!

@leighirvine

3 ай бұрын

It sounds like you had an amazing career/life! The stories you must have!! ❤

@BarryHart-xo1oy

2 ай бұрын

That’s amazing.

One of the best musicals to win the Oscar for BP. This is one of the best numbers in the whole movie.

This is one of the most wonderful scenes of any movie.

I was a dancer at the London Palladium who shared a dressing room with a couple of dancers who were in this. Better dancers than I. To do this sort of stuff you really need a classical training, but as a working-class lad who started too late I never developed that - though I did do some good work. I would have loved to have been in this movie. The organisation and synchronisation of the dancers is a logistical miracle. My only movie work was in Mahler, directed by Ken Russell. That was interesting.

@indigocheetah4172

28 күн бұрын

The Dancers were outstanding, The Academy Awards gave an Honourary Award for Choreography for Oliver, along with six Academy Awards.

@stevevasta

27 күн бұрын

...to say the least!

Mark Lester was so angelic. I was 6 when this movie came out and when he sang "Where is Love," it broke my little heart (truthfully, I thought he was singing "where is mom").

@mariamartinusz9699

Ай бұрын

Actually I believe a girl actress gave his voice and sang, but yes, he was angelic.

@KZeditzXO

Ай бұрын

@@mariamartinusz9699Kathe Green sung Oliver’s vocals since Mark Lester couldn’t sing.

My favorite movie as a kid and still at 65. Left a strong impact on my mind and heart.

A bit later in the movie, you see Oliver greeting the flower-seller in the street - a nice little touch, I always thought.

Truly a masterpiece. The singing, choreography, the movie set, everything.

I love how "Ripe Strawberries Ripe" is the same rhythm as "Food Glorious Food" symbolising the first time Oliver has nice food to try!

@billydeeuk

4 ай бұрын

I have only just noticed that 🤯🤯

@jansaunders3015

2 ай бұрын

Great Observation!

@nickdaman23

16 күн бұрын

I love those lines to” ripe strawberries ripe”

This film is an absolute masterpiece!

@carollongfield-sj4pl

5 ай бұрын

Definitely a masterpiece 1of my favourite films.Mark Lester iz a brilliant actor as Oliver

@mpatey63

5 ай бұрын

Mark Lester was great, but Jack Wild as Dodger stole the film !

@Michael-cz6ob

4 ай бұрын

​@@mpatey63Oliver Reed for me. Followed by Ron Moody

@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw

2 ай бұрын

Definitely Ron Moody. "I am reviewing the situation.." 🎼🎵🎶🎵 These days that kind of thing might be seen as a tad "anti- semitic". Just imagine the song sung by Bibi Netanyahu.

How a child should awaken every morning. Brilliant. One of my favorite musicals.

@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw

2 ай бұрын

Yeah but he was later abducted by Bill Sykes and Nancy.

@garyferguson1105

Ай бұрын

Mark Lester and I are about the same age. My childhood was almost as idyllic as that. Having loving parents, and a close family will give every child that safe and wonderful feeling.

@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw

Ай бұрын

@garyferguson1105 A propos the musical "Oliver", the point is that Oliver Twist was an orphan, born in a brutal workhouse. He did NOT have ANY parents or family, let alone a close one. His "wonderful morning" was waking up in a comfortable warm bed for the first time in his LIFE, in the house of Mr Brownlow, a kind, wealthy stranger. In the actual plot of the Oliver Twist story, there are no loving parents or family.

@garyferguson1105

Ай бұрын

@@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw I know Oliver was an orphan. A friend of mine directed a local production of the musical. You missed my point. I was saying every child should wake up to that safe and joyful feeling.

@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw

Ай бұрын

@garyferguson1105 I agree that every child should awake to a safe and loving environment. The thing is, that a child in a loving family, will know nothing else. S/he will take it as normal, or take it for granted. The point is, that in the dramatic context of Oliver, you have this little boy, whose life up to now has been Hell. He suddenly finds himself waking up in a lovely bedroom, in a warm bed, in a room in an expensive house, overlooking an elegant square, in one of London's most upper class districts. His life had been Hell, and he wakes up in Heaven.

The housekeeper was so sweet to Oliver. She loved him like her own son. In the original Dickens novel she had grown children of her own.

gives me goosebumps. Amzing to think they built this set, it's huge

@englishincontext4025

Ай бұрын

It's not a set - it's Regents Crescent in London.

@_MSD75_

Ай бұрын

@@englishincontext4025 It's actually not, it was a set built from scratch at Shepperton Studios.

@tracyboyall2631

Ай бұрын

@@englishincontext4025 I think it's the Circus in Bath

This is still one of my favorite movie musicals of all time. The story is riveting, the songs are memorable, the dance sequences like this one are fantastic. And the characters (and actors who played them) such as Oliver, Dodger, (especially) Fagin, Bill and (oh my heart) Nancy live on in our minds forever. So deserving of Best Picture. Even almost 60 years later, it is still amazing to watch.

Love this bit. For probably the first time since he can remember, Young Oliver gets to wake up and watch the world go by. Where before that night, he would of been in the workhouse or down there with them trying to survive. “Who will buy this wonderful morning” beautiful ❤️ favourite musical as a kid

@roamer61

7 ай бұрын

Still one of my favorites.

@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw

2 ай бұрын

It's nice to be rich. 🙂

A favorite movie memory. If you really watch this, you can see so much detail going on, in this 9-minute scene. It's pretty amazing. I first saw it a Xmas time, 1968 and we had the soundtrack LP. I was 4 years old. An early movie memory, I loved movies, at an early age. There are so many background dancers and singers and so many other things happening in the background. I don't know how many extras and dancers and singers are on screen, but there's a lot. I saw a 35mm screening again, in about 1984. I have seen this film at least 20x. I wrote to Mark Lester, who played OLIVER, and Ron Moody, who played FAGIN. They both sent me signed pictures, via mail. I also collected the signatures of the other main cast members, via eBay.

@joshhunt4146

6 ай бұрын

My little girl is turning 3 in a couple weeks and loves this film and the soundtrack. It’s all we listen to now 😂

@Uppercut443

4 ай бұрын

Brilliant ! I must watch again. We had the LP soundtrack when I was a kid too. It was there in vinyl along with the Sound Of Music LP and Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones and The Best Of The Bossa Novas. My Mum and Dad had some vinyl and we (all 8 kids and two parents) all loved watching these movies. Good times.

@joshhunt4146

4 ай бұрын

@@Uppercut443 yeah I have got the soundtrack on vinyl too haha

@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw

2 ай бұрын

I knew the words to this song at the time. I even recorded it on tape in a falsetto voice. I am about the same age as Mark Lester. He's four months older as a matter of fact. The 1958 club.

@OceanSwimmer

Ай бұрын

I was in highschool when this was released; it's such a great movie. Nice that you wrote Ron Moody and Mark Lester. Very kind that they responded. Moody, Wild, and a few others have gone to heaven, but Mark Lester is still around.

my grandmother took me to see this , i have watched it many many times, will never get sick of seeing it,,,, absolutely fantastic movie

I was about Oliver's age when this movie came out and have loved it ever since. Still have the souvenir book that they sold in the theater, and it has lots of "behind the scenes" photos showing how the London sets were constructed. Very clever and astonishingly realistic, making you feel you were really in Victorian England.

This film was a GEM ! The choreography was so so good ! 👍

Breathtakingly beautiful scene... The absolute perfection of the first "Who will buy" Flower seller, and then the low angle and moves of the "any mi-ilk" dancers is jaw-droppingly wonderful... particularly, as I still remember, seen from the cinema stalls on a giant screen above you! Cinema and choreographic perfection!

This would make an awesome flash mob

@nicolab2075

2 ай бұрын

Haha! It kind of *is* a flash mob!!

Saw this in the movie theatre when it first came out in the 1960s. It was tremendous back then, as it still is, even now. 😊

@bazsuperbi1773

3 ай бұрын

A treasure of childhood memories..

OH MY GOD A COMMERCIAL RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS WONDERFUL SONG! AND ANOTHER COMMERCIAL! SOMEONE NEEDS TO BE FIRED!

@indigocheetah4172

28 күн бұрын

Get Adblocker.

@journeymancellist9247

17 күн бұрын

@@indigocheetah4172 does that work on KZread?

Back when they knew how to make musical numbers big and make them work. People like to say that all the big roadshow movie musicals after "Sound of Music" were flops, but this one was huge, as it deserved to be.

@pepoppins

4 ай бұрын

Don't forget Fiddler on the Roof and My Fair Lady! Masterpieces one and all! Oh! and the Music Man!!! Loved that one too!

@oliverbrownlow5615

4 ай бұрын

I always like to point out that *Oliver!* (1968) won six Oscars -- one more than *The Sound of Music* (1965).

If I woke up and saw this I would be broke by lunch buying everything.

@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw

2 ай бұрын

The blokes with ladders are members of the National Union of Burglars. They wait til the owners are out and then they rob the houses. London innit ?

2024 and I think of my father every time I remember this movie.

this coreogeaphy topped itself. Like they wanted to see how far they could go. We want films like this again.

This song makes me cry it is so beautiful! The most powerful and mesmerizing song in any movie! A cinematic masterpiece!

@fiddleandfart

4 ай бұрын

Agree! Heartstoppingly, breathtakingly beautiful!! I occasionally replay sequence this just for that! The joys of KZread!

@louvegas1048

3 ай бұрын

When Oliver sings, I go into a trance

I miss old films like these from the 1960s, 50s, 40s and 30s.

One of my absolute favorite scenes in this movie, I’ve watched it at least 5 times over. Really brings back so many fond memories 💕

Why can't I wake to a fully-staged song-and-dance number every morning?

And to think everything you see in this clip is a film set. Absolutely astonishing and for its time probably one of the best film sets in history. The music wasn't too bad either.

@fiddleandfart

4 ай бұрын

Incredible that's a set! I originally thought it was shot in London or Bath! I guess today, it would green-screened CG! Really not the same!

I love the base of that man “Knives to grind, any knives to grind”

The bass drummer served on the Royal Yacht with the Royal Marines band and a few years later taught my brother to play the bassoon

The knife guy nailed it

@NicoleSams

2 ай бұрын

Yes!

@nickdaman23

15 күн бұрын

I totally agree, I really loved his base

@serenitythesiren5031

14 сағат бұрын

Playing him in a local production. So excited.

Imaginative and delightfully realised, one of the many scenes in a film that reminded the world that Britain could make a great musical film given the right source and talent. Timeless enjoyment!

A wonderful film, everyone in the cast was on top form, this song was just one of a number of spectacular routines

Being Upper-Middle-Class in Victorian England was the BOMB!

@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw

2 ай бұрын

Some were upper middle class It was a rising class in 19th century London. Many luxurious terrace houses were the London houses of aristocrats with huge piles in the country.

At my HS musical, we used the whole auditorium to stage this number, all the sellers as they entered and the audience did not expect who was going to enter next, and they paraded throughout, with their roses, strawberries , knives, milk, they loved it. It was captivating and the audience loved it.

rest in power-to the actor who played robert forever in my heart

The cries of London, how beautiful. Many people are now weeping over a London Lost.

@adamdavis9838

5 ай бұрын

Less poverty, less disease and the introduction of an effective sewage system was alright. Yet to be implemented in the time period this film is set.

@etcetera1995

5 ай бұрын

@@adamdavis9838Yeah, those are peddlars and servants and laborers in the street singing this idyllic song. They're probably just scraping by.

@Gnomelord0

3 ай бұрын

subtext isn't your strong point i'm guessing?

@jaybee9269

3 ай бұрын

The OP is talking about the current Londonistan.

@HelenCampbell-zk1ve

3 ай бұрын

Completely agree. My London with its real Londoners has all but disappeared.

My maternal grandmother took my mother as a child to see "Oliver!" (1968) when it originally premiered in United States theatres. The latter rented this film for me as a boy back in the 1990s. It was/is not my favourite version, but it has caused/caused "Oliver Twist" to be my favourite novel. Thanks for uploading!

Did this in a school production I had the pleasure of being Nancy and this scene is beautiful like all the harmony and everything. The choreography as well. Props to the actual movie choreographers they deserve much more than a medal from the 1970s

@philiprandall9994

9 ай бұрын

Actually, this was made and released in the late 60's.

@bsicstars

8 ай бұрын

@@philiprandall9994 yeah but they got an award in the 1970s.. i do know this was made late 60s i’m not that dumb

@oliverbrownlow5615

4 ай бұрын

The choreography here is by the great theatrical choreographer Onna White, who in fact received an honorary Academy Award for her work on the film.

@bazsuperbi1773

3 ай бұрын

At school we did a pe dance lesson and had to make up a dance to Queens "Another one bytes the dust". That was fun. Playfight and for some reason teacher wanted us to throw our hats in the air at the finish.

@edenmoon8275

Ай бұрын

Me too! I played Bett, Nancy's friend

I remember this movie fondly. They don't make them like this anymore. I loved Jack Wild.on HR Puffinstuff

This piece is just so very well constructed in every way. Perfection.

I watched this film as a child. I was struck hard by the horror that ran alongside all the pretty, shiny, glossy scenes. The story of Oliver Twist is filled with the grotesque cruelty and hypocrisy of Victorian London. As an adult I feel the same but understand it beyond the surface level I perceived as a child. The story is not innocent, no matter how pretty this scene is, it actually makes me recoil, knowing exactly how life was for the multitude.

@sidpheasant7585

14 күн бұрын

No it is not innocent, not least because it trades on the idea that Oliver received the above gentility - and was capable of appreciating it to the full - because he actually came from "a good family", even if one that fell uponvery hard times. There was a lot of hypocrisy at that time. Still, if they are trying to tell us that London was a hive of activity, well that is right. And if they are trying to persuade us that some order could be imposed upon it all, well that is probably right too. But to be honest I love the scene anyway... even though I know fully that it is fake in every way. It carries some divine goodness with it, and that's OK...

Best part af the film for me... very uplifting. Along with consider yourself 🌹

This was always my favorite song in Oliver

I like that when gets out of bed at 0:30 his hair looks like a tangled rat’s nest and when they cut back to him at 0:52 his hair is combed and flat.

One of the few musicals where book, music, and lyrics were all by the same person. Lionel Bart was amazing.

The women with the roses 🌹 😍

@fiddleandfart

4 ай бұрын

Absolutely... and then the milk maids... Quite wonderful!

I love this original arrangement of “Who Will Buy “ . But for one note that has never been a part of arrangements of this piece since (as far as I can tell). It’s the second vocal reprise of “ripe, strawberries ripe “ when a bass woodwind bassoon hits such a mournful note. I absolutely love it , but it’s never been included in subsequent arrangements. Such a beautiful phrase from an underused instrument.

@leighirvine

3 ай бұрын

You’re absolutely right!! I don’t think it’s is in any other arrangement!! It is, for me also, one of the best parts! And agree wholeheartedly that the Bass bassoon is extremely underused!! It’s tone is unmatched I think, when trying to create an atmosphere of sorrow or mourning.

I love this musical.

My school had some kind of anniversary in the mid 60s. They hired the big Cinema next door. And they showed this movie. Never forget it.

I love this classic movie.

dodgers face when he’s just standing there 😭

@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw

2 ай бұрын

Oliver Reed you mean ? He was Bill Sykes.

Can we talk about the headbanging from that woman second to the right @5:46? Jeez, she is SO into it XD

@leighirvine

3 ай бұрын

Omg right!?? She’s literally the only one I can ever look at!! Can’t keep my eyes off her! I’m glad someone else noticed 😂😂😂

@kevincruise3521

3 ай бұрын

😂 never noticed that but hilarious

@NicoleSams

2 ай бұрын

She is a treasure.

The Academy Awards gave an Honourary Award for Choreography for Oliver, along with six Academy Awards.

I used to think "There'll never be a day so sunny" was "Another million days so sunny"!

This was one of my childhood movies I loved.

I’m playing the Knife Grinder in my school’s production. So excited!

6:17 This is my favorite part

An 1840s constable's uniform from the City of London Police, on display in the City of London Police Museum. The original City of London uniform was blue, to differentiate from the red worn by the army. The collar was high and contained a leather stock to guard against garrotting (strangling with a wire or something similar). This was the most common form of attack against a police officer. These were removed from the uniform by the 1870s.

I love this scene so much, deffo my fave scene alongside consider yourself

I love Bill and Dodger's expressions at the end, like when you've been woken out of your sleep early 😂😂

Oi! Flower woman! I'm trying to sleep!

The 1968 classic movie Oliver! is one of my all-time favorite movies! I love it! I was born in 1978. Thank you for posting and sharing this beautiful and classic movie musical number!

La vi en 1968 y desde entonces la he visto más de 1000 veces, está pelicula ganadora del Oscar es muy Excelente....

@angelriosriquelme7134

6 ай бұрын

No gano un Óscar, ganó 5 😉

I passed my English Literature GCE O level thanks to this film. One of the set books we didn't study in my school was Oliver Twist. Having seen the film several times, I wrote an essay in the exam answering a question about the book and got a grade A 😂

To hell with waking up to that every morning.

9 minutes and 15 seconds of pure joy 😍 no matter how many times I’ve seen it I still smile from ear to ear and I still have tears in my eyes! This song is a masterpiece ❤ while I love every single second of it my very favourite person is the “Knifes to grind” man! I get goosebumps when his voice comes in at 1:59, the way it cuts through the beautiful high pitched voices of the woman before him is so perfect ❤❤

Mark lester is so cute.

A haunting song that is full of nostalgia.

I LOVE that lyric 5:35. “Every tree and flower is singing, how fortunate of me to be alive to see the dawning of a day so fair” 😌😍🌞

@sidpheasant7585

14 күн бұрын

Yes, London-Schmondon - that is the real meaning of the song, and this is where it gets its more-or-less divine strength

This musical is better than A Sound of Music. I. Will. Die. On. This. Hill.

@eviekaley952

7 ай бұрын

I'll be right beside you

@leighirvine

3 ай бұрын

I’m with you on that hill, friend!! ❤

Some things you just can't sell some things are just not for sale😮

I cant get over the trailers off Ferrero rocher outside the houses !!

@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw

2 ай бұрын

The Ambassador was going to spoil a lot of people. 😆😛

Blijft schitterend ? Helemaal in deze tijden. De schoonheid en onschuld raken je hart ! Groeten uit Amsterdam Oost

How charming.

Brilliant Movie!

I did this song when I was a boy soprano before my voice broke. I love oliver always will😊

I love this musical. I was fortunate to see the movie and I had the LP of the musical with all of the songs. I was disappointed to find out later that a young girl did the singing of the songs of Oliver and not the actor himself. However, other than that, it was a true master piece with brilliant acting and singing. The story line was very poignant and showed that poverty and hardship wasn't just for black people.

@franparkinson2040

5 ай бұрын

Wow I never knew this! I went to see a production of this in Leeds UK this week and it was amazing. The boy who sang this had an incredible voice.

@fiddleandfart

4 ай бұрын

@@franparkinson2040 Yes, we too saw the Leeds Playhouse production a few weeks ago! A truly fabulous production! This scene beautifully done there too!

This is a masterpiece. Still a delight for the eyes and ears.

I saw this wonderful movie at the theatre when it came out! I remember it like it was yesterday, which tells me what an impact it had. Sheer brilliance!

❤❤ I WAS IN THE 'OLIVER'___ play in 🌟Summer 1970**_____

An amazing cast and performance

Tks for posting this wonderful piece of pure analogical art !!! These were the days we had to use the brain!!

What a classic, just heard this again on Film4.

@cream7507

6 ай бұрын

Me too!

@joshhunt4146

6 ай бұрын

😮 and I missed it???

It would be so easy to compile a long, long list of flaws to what we see above... But somehow there is a power here that can override them all!

So much for sleeping in.

@goo83

8 ай бұрын

😂

I love how at 6:58 you can tell that they’re in Islington because a young Jeremy Corbyn is up in a tree playing the flute

@leighirvine

3 ай бұрын

He should have stayed up there 🙄😂🤣

@cathyspinelli9541

Ай бұрын

They're on a movie lot, and the flutist is John Heawood

Person goes up to one of the sellers: "I would like to buy-" Seller: *keeps singing and walks away* Person: "Oh...okay then....carry one..."

This song instantly puts me in a good mood

First saw this movie in 1968 then bought the record in 1968 or 1969 ! Loved it

4:23 to the end just stops time!!!! It is brilliant!!!!

2:37 WHOA MOMMA! THERE'S A KICK LIKE A MULE

It would be great to catch this movie on KZread.

" I don't want to loose it".

You all know that Oliver isn't really singing it's another's voice.

@thomasnorton5086

17 күн бұрын

So what.