Reception
The film earned $10.5 million in rentals at the North American box office (US/ Canada rentals)and took $77,402,877 world wide. Oliver! received extremely favourable reviews. It was hailed by Pauline Kael in her New Yorker review as being one of the few film versions of a stage musical that was superior to the original show, which she, according to her own review of the film, had walked out on. "The musical numbers emerge from the story with a grace that has been rarely seen since the musicals of René Clair."
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