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Overview

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7.2/10   1,448 votes
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Director:
John Schlesinger
Writers:
Thomas Hardy (novel)
Frederic Raphael (screenplay)
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Release Date:
18 October 1967 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
Her romance with three men becomes a bold adventure [UK theatrical] more
Plot:
Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 wins & 5 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(4 articles)
Veteran Actor Alan Bates Dead at 69
 (From Studio Briefing - Film News. 29 December 2003)

Actor Alan Bates Dies at 69
 (From IMDb News. 28 December 2003)

User Comments:
Under-rated version of the Hardy classic. more

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Additional Details

Runtime:
168 min | Finland:170 min (uncut) | Finland:157 min (cut)
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Mono (35 mm prints)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 (heavily cut) (1968) | Finland:K-16 (uncut) (1988) | UK:U (cut) | USA:TV-14 | France:U | Singapore:PG | Australia:PG | Sweden:11 | USA:PG | West Germany:12

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Trivia:
Director Cameo: [John Schlesinger]Briefly spotted as an extra in the harvest celebration at about the midway point, before the film's Intermission. more
Quotes:
Liddy: [about Boldwood] He is married to his farm. That's the truth of it.
Temperence: There's no woman can touch him, Miss. 'Tis said he has no passionate parts.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Evening Shade: Far from the Madden Crowd (#1.23)" (1991) more
Soundtrack:
Jesus Christ Is Ris'n Today more

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9 out of 11 people found the following comment useful:-
Under-rated version of the Hardy classic., 25 December 2001
10/10
Author: (CarlHalling@aol.com) from suburbs of London (West)

For many the casting of sixties beauty Julie Christie as the vulnerable heartbreaker Bathsheba Everdene was erroneous, but Christie does a fine job, and makes the role her own. Schlesinger remains faithful to the romantic spirit of Hardy, drenching the magnificent cinematography in the exquisite pastoral music of Richard Rodney Bennett, who clearly wrote under the influence of Vaughan Williams and Delius, while interpreting the story for the cinema very much in his own way. The film is long; but craftmanlike, and characterised by superb performances, with Peter Finch as the tormented Boldwood, and Alan Bates as Gabriel, who is the moral force within the story, particularly excellent. The film's climax is one of the most hauntingly poignant in sixties cinema.

I like to see it as an oblique commentary on the essentially tragical (and doomed) nature of selfish or sensual or possessive love; and the innate nobility of the marriage state buttressed by genuine mutual respect, with Gabriel as the agent of reason and decency amid so much unbridled passionateness....

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