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Winner of 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture, and featuring "a cast of superb players" (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 so 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 woman he'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?
"...rowdy, randy and completely disarming." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
"Thrilling, bawdy, lusty...a masterpiece." New York Post
Editor's Note
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.
Plot Summary
This charming romp was based on Henry Fielding's 1749 novel about the robust and ribald exploits of a handsome playboy in 18th-century England, starring the immensely talented Albert Finney.
| Features | Spanish Dolby Digital Mono | | French Subtitles | | Spanish Subtitles | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | English Dolby Digital Mono | | French Dolby Digital Mono |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: MGM |
| Release Date: 6/19/2001 |
| Running Time: 129 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1963 | | Catalog ID: 1002067 | | UPC: 00027616862976 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 4:3 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1964) |  | Tony Richardson, Winner, Best Director | | John Addison, Winner, Best Music, Original Score | | Tony Richardson, Winner, Best Picture | | John Osborne, Winner, Best Writing, Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium | | | Albert Finney, Nominee, Best Actor | | | Hugh Griffith, Nominee, Best Supporting Actor |
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| | Professional Reviews | Los Angeles Times
"...It's a free-wheeling, fast-moving relic....It's well worth a repeat visit..." 10/25/1989 p.C11USA Today
"...[A] now-mellowed movie delight....Albert Finney and Susannah York look impossibly young and attractive..." 03/13/1992 p.3D At-A-Glance Film Reviews 7 of 10
The movie's biggest asset is the young Albert Finney in the title role. He's incorrigibly spirited in the part, outrageously bawdy and boisterous to the last.
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