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Oliver & Company is a 1988 American animated musical adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is loosely based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist. In the film, Oliver is a homeless kitten who joins a gang of dogs to survive in the streets.
Following their duties on Oliver & Company (1988), animators Butoy and Gabriel were recruited to direct the sequel. [3] Research trips to Australia provided inspiration for the background designs. The film would also mark the full use of the Computer Animation Production System (CAPS), becoming the first feature film to be completely created ...
Oliver & Company (1988) Unusually for a Disney animated feature, there was no soundtrack album released alongside the film; it was released in 1992 alongside the film's reissue under its new title by Varèse Sarabande , the only Disney cartoon to have an original soundtrack on the label to date (and the only one not to be issued under a Walt ...
Oliver & Company (1988), a Disney full-length animated feature which resets the tale to modern-day New York City, with Oliver (voiced by Joey Lawrence) portrayed as an orphaned kitten, the Dodger as a street-wise terrier mongrel (voiced by Billy Joel), and Fagin (voiced by Dom DeLuise) as a homeless tramp who lives on the docks with his pack of ...
The Little Mermaid was the second film, following Oliver & Company, produced after Disney began expanding its animated output following its successful live action/animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and became Disney's first animated major box office and critical hit since The Jungle Book (1967), 22 years earlier. [21]
Loggia appeared as a mobster in multiple films, including Bill Sykes, the immoral loanshark and shipyard agent in Disney's animated film Oliver & Company (1988), Salvatore "The Shark" Macelli in John Landis' Innocent Blood (1992), Mr. Eddy in David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997), and Don Vito Leoni in David Jablin's The Don's Analyst (1997).
George Scribner, who had directed Oliver & Company (1988), was the initial director of the film, [25] being later joined by Roger Allers, who was the lead story man on Beauty and the Beast (1991). [11] [16] Allers worked with Scribner and Woolverton on the project, but temporarily left the project to help rewrite Aladdin (1992).
Oliver! is a stage musical, with book, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart.The musical is based upon the 1838 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.. It premiered at the Wimbledon Theatre, southwest London in 1960 before opening in the West End, where it enjoyed a record-breaking long run.