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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
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Winner* of four Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, and featuring a cast of superbplayers (Boxoffice) headed by the Oscar®-nominated** Albert Finney and Susannah York, this wickedly funny classic has been hailed as 'the best comedy ever made (Newsweek)! No one has ever lived as freely and carelessly as Tom Jones. Abandoned at birth and raised by a wealthy squire, Tom romps through English society leading a lusty life of brawling and bed-hopping until his bawdy behavior causes him to be sent away from his family, his home and the only womanhe's ever truly loved. But some men never learn, and soon Tom's escapades land him in the company of reckless scoundrels, the boudoirs of more women and, finally, in jail. Will Tom's charm save him or will the gallows be his last swing? *1963: Director, Adapted Screenplay, Music **Finney: Actor, Tom Jones (1963); Murder on the Orient Express (1974); The Dresser (1983); Under the Volcano (1984); York: Supporting Actress, They Shoot Horses, don't They? (1969)
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By William Shaw
Format:DVD
There were some classic period movies made in the 60's and this one of them. The historical accuracy in costumes, customs and settings alone makes buying the movie worthwhile. The plot is a farce (in the literary, not pejorative, sense) and not very racy by contemporary standards, but a very enjoyable distraction. And as I said in the review title, the cinematography is wonderful.
By A Customer
Format:DVD
Perhaps in 1968 there were fewer idiots in this world than in 2004? It's difficult to explain why this film has so many negative reviews. It is one of the best movies of the late 60s, and I have watched it so many times, nearly every scene has burned itself into my memory.
It is a perfect adaptation of Fielding's Tom Jones. Every minute of the film has so much joy, humor, excitement and hilarity that it's very difficult to sum up in this review.
If you have any taste in film at all, and are a patient and intelligent filmgoer, you'll want to buy this classic.
It is a perfect adaptation of Fielding's Tom Jones. Every minute of the film has so much joy, humor, excitement and hilarity that it's very difficult to sum up in this review.
If you have any taste in film at all, and are a patient and intelligent filmgoer, you'll want to buy this classic.
By L. Miller
Format:DVD
...why does he allow people to suffer through this movie?
If you think it's funny to watch people kick dogs and have sex with their own parents, then this is the movie for you. Albert Finney looks about 15 years too old to portray the virile title character in this adaptation of the classic 18th century novel. The "plot," if you can call it that, is a little hard for me to describe since I am expending a tremendous amount of energy trying to block it from my mind. Suffice to say it plods along much like a typical episode of Three's Company, with it's misunderstandings, sexual escapades and slapstick humor. The difference of course being that a typical episode of Three's Company is better written, better directed and far easier to stomach. In particular, the last hour of the movie is a boringly boring bore. Sitting through it is like sitting through the end credits of the Olympics. I find it to be unbelievable that this movie was nominated for any Oscars much less win for best picture given the fact that it is as difficult to watch as footage of starving African babies with flies all over their heads. Wow, that is two hours of my life I can never get back.
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Of its Time
Heavily influenced by Godard's 1959 mould-breaker "Breathless" (jump-cuts, hand-held camera, addresses to the viewer) this film is full of brilliant episodes, especially... Read more
Published on Feb 29 2004
3.0 out of 5 stars
Poor quality DVD, Sound - so so very 60s movie
This movie won best picture in 1963 over the likes of Cleopatra and Lillies of the Valley. I can say that it may be the oddest best picture of the 40 or so that I have seen. Read more
Published on Feb 22 2004 by John C. Adams
1.0 out of 5 stars
Waste of time
It was so awful that I had to watch half of it in fastforward. Although supposedly a period piece, it couldn't get itself out of the 1960s. Read more
Published on Nov 29 2003
1.0 out of 5 stars
ONE OF THE TOP TEN WORST LOOKING DVD TRANSFERS EVER!
Albert Finney is the scandalous "Tom Jones", a squire of young ladies with nothing on their mind but sex. Read more
Published on April 25 2003 by Nix Pix
3.0 out of 5 stars
Dated Film
I had much better memories of this film than reality as the recent viewing proved. I thought fondly of this film after having seen it in the theatre when it was first released. Read more
Published on Mar 23 2003 by Zen Williston
5.0 out of 5 stars
LOVE this movie!!!!
I saw this in the theatre when it was first released, and the passage of time has done nothing to dim my love and fascination of this superb translation of the novel by Fielding. Read more
Published on Feb 27 2003 by Schuyler V. Johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars
Simplely Delightful
Call it one part Monty Python's Flying Circus, one part Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, with a dash of Benny Hill and you begin to see the rollicking good fun in store here. Read more
Published on Oct 30 2002
5.0 out of 5 stars
Nicely Naughty Vintage Fun!
For many years, Tom Jones was my absolute favourite film. My views have mellowed and my tastes changed somewhat, but I still enjoy seeing it every now and then. Read more
Published on May 30 2002 by Cowboy Buddha
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Best of British
As one of the greatest British films ever made, Tony Richardson's classic Tom Jones is long overdue for a full and proper restoration. Read more
Published on Oct 9 2001 by H. Hopkins
5.0 out of 5 stars
Unabashed hilarity will ensue
shortly after you pop this VHS into your esteemed slot. The ladies in the audience can indulge crushes on handsome, lovably fallible Tom; the gentlemen can develop soft spots for... Read more
Published on Aug 6 2001 by Mme Verdurin
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