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Tom Jones (1963)

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Average Rating: 7.8/10
Reviews Counted: 26
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 5

A frantic, irreverent adaptation of the novel, bolstered by Albert Finney's courageous performance and arresting visuals.

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Critic Reviews: 4
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 1

A frantic, irreverent adaptation of the novel, bolstered by Albert Finney's courageous performance and arresting visuals.

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Tony Richardson's adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel was one of the most critically acclaimed and popular comedies of its time, winning four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The film follows Tom Jones (Albert Finney), a country boy who becomes one of the wildest playboys in 18th century England, developing a ravenous taste for women, food, and rowdy adventures. Over the course of the film, Jones tries to amass his own fortune and win the heart of Sophie (Susannah York). Not only

Unrated, 2 hr. 9 min.

Action & Adventure, Romance, Classics, Comedy

Directed By: Tony Richardson

Written By: John Osborne

In Theaters: Jan 1, 1963 Wide

On DVD: Oct 30, 1997

Woodfall Film Productions

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Cast

Albert Finney
Tom Jones
Susannah York
Sophie Western
Hugh Griffith
Squire Western
Edith Evans
Miss Western
Joan Greenwood
Lady Bellaston
Diane Cilento
Molly Seagram
George Devine
Squire Allworthy
David Tomlinson
Lord Fellamar
Rosalind Atkinson
Mrs. Millar
Wilfred Lawson
Black George
Rosalind Knight
Mrs. Fitzpatrick
Jack MacGowran
Partridge
Freda Jackson
Mrs. Seagrim
David Warner
Blifil
Joyce Redman
Mrs. Waters/Jenny Jones
James Cairncross
Parson Supple
Rachel Kempson
Bridget Allworthy
Peter Bull
Thwackum
Angela Baddeley
Mrs. Wilkins
George A. Cooper
Fitzpatrick
Michael Brennan
the Jailor at Newgate
Avis Bunnage
Inn Keeper
Mark Dignam
Lieutenant
Julian Glover
Northerton
Michael MacLiammoir
Narrator
Redmond Phillips
Lawyer Dowling
Lynn Redgrave
Susan
Patsy Rowlands
Honour
Jack Stewart
MacLachlan
John Moffatt
Square
John Osborne
Wilfrid Lawson

Critic Reviews for Tom Jones

All Critics (26) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (5) | DVD (6)

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.

February 20, 2009 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine

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It has sex, Eastmancolor, some prime performers and plenty of action.

January 28, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety

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Rich Gold

Variety

Top Critic

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.

December 13, 2006 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

Prepare yourself for what is surely one of the wildest, bawdiest and funniest comedies that a refreshingly agile filmmaker has ever brought to the screen.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Bosley Crowther

New York Times

Top Critic

A classic not just of literary adaptation, but of the last truly adventurous era in British and European filmmaking.

July 8, 2008 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy

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Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

A lusty historical romp with a cheeky sense of humor and a rollicking energy...

June 27, 2008 Full Review Source: Turner Classic Movies Online

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Sean Axmaker

Turner Classic Movies Online

Irreverent comedy.

April 1, 2008 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

If Tom Jones now feels something of a product of its times, it still deserves credit for attempting something new.

February 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine

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David Parkinson

Empire Magazine

The ragbag of visual tricks turns a great novel into an entertaining but simple-minded romp.

January 28, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4

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Film4

Albert Finney's performance can't stop Tom Jones from being a grainy mess.

November 21, 2006 Full Review Source: Oscar Guy

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Wesley Lovell

Oscar Guy

Osborne's courageous hatchet job on Fielding's 1,000 page classic novel and Finney's gutsy performance add up to produce an enjoyable piece of irreverent entertainment.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Geoff Andrew

Time Out

An enjyable adaptation (by playwright John Osborn) of Henry Fielding's famous novel about the adventures of the amorous illegit son of a servant, splendidly played by the young Albert Finney.

December 19, 2005 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

A brilliant melding of naturalistic 18th-Century backgrounds with frantic, Keystone Kops-style slapstick and silent film devices like undercranking, titles, wipes, stop-motion photography, etc.

February 4, 2003 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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a messy disappointment - maybe cuz the washed out mgm dvd transfer blows

November 25, 2007

Bob Stinson

Super Reviewer

A voracious bastard pursues his love - among others - in a satirical exploration of British class structure and sexual politics.Henry Fielding is sometimes credited with inventing the modern novel, and his works read like an experiment in a new form; in Joseph Andrews the narrator actually tells the reader to skip the

December 1, 2011