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11 December 1963 (France)
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Tom Jones! . . . loves and loves and loves and loves . . . [UK] more
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Tom Jones, the adopted son of a British country squire, is a love-'em-and-leave-'em lady charmer who goes blithely from bed to bed, while managing to get into enough other mischief to come within moments of being hanged. full summary | add synopsis
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Won 4 Oscars.
Another 17 wins
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17 nominations
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Lyric beauty, bawdy humor and adventure set to celluloid and music.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Albert Finney | ... | Tom Jones | |
| Susannah York | ... | Sophie Western | |
| Hugh Griffith | ... | Squire Western | |
| Edith Evans | ... | Miss Western | |
| Joan Greenwood | ... | Lady Bellaston | |
| Diane Cilento | ... | Molly Seagrim | |
| George Devine | ... | Squire Allworthy | |
| David Tomlinson | ... | Lord Fellamar | |
| Rosalind Atkinson | ... | Mrs. Miller | |
| George A. Cooper | ... | Mr. Fitzpatrick | |
| Angela Baddeley | ... | Mrs. Wilkins | |
| Mark Dignam | ... | Lieutenant | |
| Avis Bunnage | ... | Landlady, George Inn | |
| Julian Glover | ... | Northernton | |
| Peter Bull | ... | Thwackum |
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Tom Jones! (UK) (poster title)
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128 min | USA:121 min (director's cut)
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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UK:PG (video rating) (cut) |
UK:AA (1970 rating) |
Iceland:L |
USA:TV-14 (cable rating) |
Sweden:11 |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-16 |
USA:Unrated |
West Germany:18
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Albert Finney felt the lead role wasn't serious enough, and agreed to star only if he got a producing credit; he later traded the credit for profit participation.
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Continuity: After Lady Bellaston reads Tom's letter proposing marriage, she wads it into a small ball, clearly wrinkling it. In the next scene, Lady Bellaston shows the letter to Sophie's aunt, but now it is smooth and uncrumpled.
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Referenced in The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (2004)
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Such Trying Times
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In 1963 two of the most important productions in the history of movie making were released. The first was: "Cleopatra" with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, a cast as long as the Manhattan telephone directory and a budget bigger than the combined egos of the stars. "Cleopatra" was a total disaster. It has no redeeming quality that I know of. It is therefore important for embodying in one film, nearly everything that you can do wrong in making a movie. It is a movie that you must see if you are ever to understand what a truly good film really is. The second was: "Tom Jones" with Albert Finney and Susannah York, shot with rented equipment and costumes on the streets of London with a supporting cast of brilliant British ensemble players and extras who stood-in just to get in a film. Tom Jones is simply one of the best motion pictures of all time, for my money, The Best from Literature.
John Osborne who wrote the screen play produced a marvelous vehicle, but the genius of "Tom Jones" is Tony Richardson. He moves the actors and the story about the screen with a bawdy grace and earthy gentility that paints action and raucous laughter and beauty across one another with an even hand. It is a glimpse of antiquity so close and real that we can nearly touch it, and it makes us want to. (Though to be perfectly honest, I'm not sure we'd care for the smell of it.)
"Tom Jones" is a low budget, low tech, high quality film that must win the award for the "Most with the Least." The photography is beautiful, not because it used a dozen half million dollar cameras, it is beautiful because it is good photography. The acting wins out, and casts of thousands would only serve to clutter the stage. See this film whenever, wherever and as often as you possibly can.