must every good story be improve with added corny broadway music . apparently those who can not come up with their own plot think that classic literature be just there for the plundering . i confess that oliver twist and similar story be not my favorite and a it be certainly true that dickens often write thing that leave you considerably bum out and and this be a great example of just that . so of course and take this serious tale and add nauseating music and camp it up with every character from prance orphan boy to mince bobby and suddenly it uplift . argh . fetch me a basin . the four star in my rating come from cast and which i could liken to that of my fair lady . each of these film have a cast that a play version could be proud of and but then they must go and have them sing ( see complaint above ) . unlike my fair lady and those sing here could actually do so and they mercifully spar u the singing voice of oliver reed ( pardon if i be mistake and it be a while ) . my big complaint i have state . why embarrass everyone except the truly shameless by put silly song into a perfectly good story . seldom have this be do to good effect . generally it ruin the story . it do with this one . jury still out on whether this story be worth save and but with all that gad about and it impossible to tell .