from Woodfall Film Productions
Directed by
Tony
Richardson
Starring
Albert
Finney (Tom Jones)
Hugh
Griffith (Squire Western)
Susannah
York (Sophie Western)
George Devine (Squire Allworthy)
Rachel Kempson (Bridget Allworthy)
Angela Baddeley (Mrs. Wilkins)
Joyce Redman (Mrs. Waters)
Jack MacGowran (Partridge)
Diane Cilento (Molly)
Wilfrid Lawson (Black George)
John Moffatt (Square)
Peter Bull (Thwackum)
David Warner (Blifil)
Freda Jackson (Mrs. Seagrim)
Redmond Phillips (Lawyer Dowling)
James Cairncross (Parson Supple)
Edith Evans (Miss Western)
Patsy Rowlands (Honor)
Mark Dignam (Lieutenant)
Julian Glover (Northerton)
Avis Bunnage (Inn Keeper)
Rosalind Knight (Mrs. Fitzpatrick)
Lynn Redgrave (Susan, Upton Inn)
George A. Cooper (Fitzpatrick)
Jack Stewart (MacLachlan)
Joan Greenwood (Lady Bellaston)
Rosalind Atkinson (Mrs. Miller)
David Tomlinson (Lord Fellamar)
Michael Brennan (Newgate Jailer)
Micheal Maclìammoìr (Narrator (voice))
Written by
John
Osborne
Henry
Fielding (novel) |
 Winner of four
Academy Awards including best picture, director, screenplay,
and music, this 1963 adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel
is a rousing, bawdy comedy about a young man's ribald adventures
in 18th-century England. Albert Finney is splendidly hilarious
in the title role of a charming womanizer who was discovered
as an abandoned infant in the bed of Squire Allworthy, a wealthy
landowner who named the child Tom Jones and raised him as his
own. As a young man, Tom yearns for the comely daughter (Susannah
York) of a neighboring squire, but his amorous adventures (including
an extended food orgy that becomes the film's funniest scene)
lead him to London and to a duel with a jealous husband. He's
sentenced to hang, but fate intervenes. A hit around the world,
the film was expertly written by noted playwright John Osborne,
and director Tony Richardson uses a variety of old-style movie
techniques to heighten the lusty, good-natured fun. Don't miss
this one! --Jeff Shannon
1963
Academy Award®
Best Picture
Best Director - Tony Richardson
Tom
Jones [VHS]
Tom
Jones [VHS - Spanish]
Tom Jones (VHS Tape - Widescreen)
Tom
Jones [DVD]
The
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (paperback)
by Henry Fielding
The
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (hardcover)
by Henry Fielding
Tom
Jones (audiocassette)
by Henry Fielding, Robert Lindsay (Narrator)
Tony
Richardson : A Bio-Bibliography
by Don Radovich
Albert
Finney in Character : A Biography
by Quentin Falk
Eighteenth-Century
English Society : Shuttles and Swords
by Douglas Hay, Nicholas Rogers
Gender
in Eighteenth-Century England : Roles, Representations and Responsibilities
by Hannah Barker, Elaine Chalus
The
London Hanged : Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century
by Peter Linebaugh
Sexual
Suspects : Eighteenth-Century Players and Sexual Ideology
by Kristina Straub
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