Tom Jones (2-DVD)
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 8 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 27, 2018
- Originally Released: 1963
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Albert Finney & Susannah York | |
Performer: | David Warner, Hugh Griffith, David Tomlinson, Diane Cilento, Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood & Joyce Redman | |
Directed by | Tony Richardson | |
Edited by | Antony Gibbs | |
Narrated by | Micheál MacLiammóir | |
Screenplay by | John Osborne | |
Original story by | Henry Fielding | |
Composition by | John Addison | |
Produced by | Michael Balcon & Tony Richardson | |
Director of Photography: | Walter Lassally |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1963 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: John Osborne
Academy Awards 1963 -
Best Director: Tony Richardson
Academy Awards 1963 -
Best Original Score: John Addison
Academy Awards 1963 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Despite the fitful energy and the beauty of the settings, the ugliness of the mise en scene and the crudity of the editing tend to triumph.
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Chicago Reader
A fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek movie about an engaging foundling.
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New York Daily News
Rating: 3/4 --
Decades of art-house imitators and Benny Hill reruns may have removed some of the luster, but there's still plenty to admire and enjoy in this bawdy British effort.
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Creative Loafing
It's a free-wheeling, fast-moving relic from a time when "bawdy" wasn't bad and sex comedies still celebrated sex.
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Los Angeles Times
The film is a way-out, walleyed, wonderful exercise in cinema. It is also a social satire written in blood with a broadaxe. It is bawdy as the British were bawdy when a wench had to wear five petticoats to barricade her virtue.
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TIME Magazine
Sizzling with vitality and frankly sexy, this British comedy-of-love honors the gaiety and candor of life in eighteenth-century England, without losing sight of its crudities and oppressions.
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Maclean's Magazine
It has sex, Eastmancolor, some prime performers and plenty of action.
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Variety
Product Description:
Tony Richardson's rousing adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic comic novel stars Albert Finney as the eponymous swordsman. TOM JONES achieved enormous critical and commercial success, benefiting from an excellent cast, lively score, and unusually realistic art direction. While the film surely deserves this praise, Richardson initially considered it a failure, and it's likely that he saved the film in the editing room, emphasizing the farcical elements of the story with rapid intercutting, and adding amusingly ironic voice-over narration. The end product is one of the most entertaining costume dramas ever put on celluloid.
Tom Jones is raised by Squire Allworthy (George Devine), his mother's (Joyce Redman) aptly named employer. He grows up to be a lively young man, loved by all except Allworthy's legitimate heir--the dour, envious Blifil (David Warner)--to whom Tom's true love Sophie Western (Susannah York) is promised in marriage. Allworthy feels obliged to send Tom away for Blifil's sake, which only briefly dampens Tom's mood. Soon, he's engaging in a famously libidinous eating scene with a woman met en route, carrying on with his ever-entertaining high spirits. An inspired piece of cinematic comedy, TOM JONES is most memorable for Finney's performance, which keeps viewers laughing long after the film's end.
Tom Jones is raised by Squire Allworthy (George Devine), his mother's (Joyce Redman) aptly named employer. He grows up to be a lively young man, loved by all except Allworthy's legitimate heir--the dour, envious Blifil (David Warner)--to whom Tom's true love Sophie Western (Susannah York) is promised in marriage. Allworthy feels obliged to send Tom away for Blifil's sake, which only briefly dampens Tom's mood. Soon, he's engaging in a famously libidinous eating scene with a woman met en route, carrying on with his ever-entertaining high spirits. An inspired piece of cinematic comedy, TOM JONES is most memorable for Finney's performance, which keeps viewers laughing long after the film's end.
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- Sales Rank: 64,154
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