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  Former child star Mark Lester defends Michael Jackson over abuse allegations

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  Mark Lester and Jack Wild are best known for their roles as Oliver Twist and the Artful Dodger respectively in the 1968 musical Oliver! Just three years later, the pair reunited for Melody, a delightful film that tanked in the United States and Britain but, somewhat surprisingly, proved a huge hit in Japan and various Latin American countries. The tagline, “The happiest film of all time” gives you some idea of the tone as director Waris Hussein and writer Alan Parker attempt to tell a story of

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