Thank you, Begleiter, for the Exclamation Point in Oliver! Lionel Begleiter wrote and composed a 1960 stage musical inspired by the Charles Dickens’s book Oliver Twist; this was eventually released in 1968 as a film musical (Oliver! Background). Under director Sir Carol Reed’s supervision, an unlikely selection for directing this heartfelt film based on his previous works of war movies as of The Third Man and the Hitchcock-styled Night Train to Munich; Oliver! became a sensation for its time and won a total of six Academy Awards, including best picture, director, and music awards (Adbullah). Set in 1850, an orphanage of boys sang the desire for “Food, Glorious, Food;” however, Oliver inquired for more gruel and was punished. Tired with his
