Oliver Twist
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Mr. Brownlow: The law assumes that your wife acts under your direction.
Mr. Bumble: If the law supposes that, then the law is a ass, a idiot! If that's the eye of the law, then the law is a bachelor. And the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience.

Mr. Bumble: Cry your hardest now, it opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes and softens down the temper. So cry away.

Nancy: I will not turn on the others because, bad as they are, they never turned on me.

Continuity mistake: As he eats, a bread chunk rests on the table to the right of Oliver's bowl. As he rises, the bread is gone. (00:14:20 - 00:14:50)

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Trivia: Because of protests from Jewish pressure groups, the film was not released in the United States until 1951.

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Question: Why was this film banned in Egypt for portraying "Fagin" too sympathetically?

Answer: Fagin was a Jewish character and in the 1930's and 40's Egypt did not like Jewish people. Egypt was heavily anti-Semitic; Jews were denied citizenship, Egypt was part of the Arab League during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and bombing of Jewish areas in Egypt would occur. It was banned simply out of hate.

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