He is a developing actor who should stick to playing the Artful Dodger for now, and leave Fagin to his elders and betters. |
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There he meets up with the wily Artful Dodger who takes him to thief and fence Fagin, who is in charge of a gang of young pickpockets. |
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What saves the film, without doubt, is Ben Kingsley's portrayal of Fagin, which is brilliant. |
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I was suddenly transported back to a Dickensian world of Fagin and footpads. |
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For Polanski portrays the fence Fagin and his gang of children who steal silk handkerchiefs, pocket watches and wallets in a far more sympathetic light than the authorities. |
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Although referred to by the witness Police Constable Fagin during the course of her testimony the print out was not produced in evidence before me. |
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Without going overboard on the bent-backed, swivel-eyed cackling often brought to the character, his Fagin is believably unscrupulous and self-serving. |
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In the film Oliver's attempt to get Fagin to pray is overwhelmed by the emotional intensity of Fagin's sense of parting from the young orphan he took in. |
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At Midwest there is a Fagin character, Quinton, who is running a school for terrorists or something on that order. |
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The actor's portrayal of Fagin was controversial at the time. |
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Lisa Fagin Davis brings twofold skills to her analysis of the Gottschalk Antiphonary, those of a musicologist and liturgical scholar, and those of a historian of the book. |
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