i saw this recently on a cable channel . the movie be great while it one of the few musical i have see that doesn not shy away from the light and dark . it portray some of the splendour of the age along with a lot of the squalor . some of the set piece dance sequence so much be go on and i do not know where to look next . one day i shall go and see this on the big screen and just so that i see what happen . but what really lift this to another level be oliver reed performance a bill sykes . not only be a thoroughly mean and menace man but there be something else and some inner demon . he give me the impression that if you push him into a corner and he be capable of anything . it be almost a if the sykes character be on the edge of madness and just await the trigger . i have see the robert newton bill sykes from the 1948 movie and and i think he be just a bad egg and but oliver reed performance intimidate me in my own living room .