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starring: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, Edith Evans, Joan Greenwooddirected by: Tony Richardson
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792850175
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792850173
Label: Lopert Pictures Corporation
Manufacturer: Lopert Pictures Corporation
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lopert Pictures Corporation
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 19, 2001
Running Time: 129 minutes
Sales Rank: 15308
Studio: Lopert Pictures Corporation
Theatrical Release Date: 1963
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Amazon.com essential video:
Winner of four Academy Awards including best picture, director, screenplay, and music, this 1963 adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel is a rousing, bawdy comedy about a young man's ribald adventures in 18th-century England. Albert Finney is splendidly hilarious in the title role of a charming womanizer who was discovered as an abandoned infant in the bed of Squire Allworthy, a wealthy landowner who named the child Tom Jones and raised him as his own. As a young man, Tom yearns for the comely daughter (Susannah York) of a neighboring squire, but his amorous adventures (including an extended food orgy that becomes the film's funniest scene) lead him to London and to a duel with a jealous husband. He's sentenced to hang, but fate intervenes. A hit around the world, the film was expertly written by noted playwright John Osborne, and director Tony Richardson uses a variety of old-style movie techniques to heighten the lusty, good-natured fun. Don't miss this one! --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - It's a delightfully good time...
It has charm and humor to spare, that is for sure, and it is rich with wonderful performances and witty dialog but calling it the best movie of the year seems like a stretch. I so adore it, which goes without saying, and I enjoy every minute, but it is just a good movie that provides a good time, and it never feels like more than that.
Does that make any sense?
The film follows Tom, the adopted son of a British squire. He's a lady-charmer of sorts, planting his seed wherever ... Read More
Rating: - Tom Jones
A very good print of the original movie. A classic effort for foreign film during the 60's. Outshines many current efforts at period comedy.
Rating: - "Out and About in the 1700s"
This movie is such a great example of use of humor in a fictional biography. ("Little Big Man" would be another) Tom, played by Albert Finney starts his life under dire circumstances and goes from one predicament to another. We fear for his life many times. Most of the Action occurs in the 1700s and we get to see the traumas of people living with parasites, being arrested for minor offenses and punished without benefit of fair trial or representation. Raw sewage and garbage fill the streets. It was ... Read More
Rating: - WHATS NEW PUSSYCAT !!!
Tom Jones stars Albert Finny as a would be Casanova who LOVES shall we say
the delicate things in life. Winner of BEST PICTURE(???) 1963.
My friend Geri owns all the Best Pictures and I always give her pains and sorrows when she mentions this for all I can think of is....
~~~~ITS NOT UNUSUAL TO BE LOVED BY ANYONE~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~AND SHE STRIKESSSSS LIKE THUNDERBALL~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~YOU LOVE THE WAY SHE WALKS THE WAY SHE MOVES THE WAY SHE TALKS ... Read More
Rating:  - Worst "Best" Picture Oscar Winner Ever!
When you think that "Lawrence of Arabia" preceded this and "My Fair Lady" followed this it boggles the mind that something as terribly bad as this film could ever be mentioned in the same breath as those two brilliant all-time classics of film. I thought that "Gigi" was the worst film ever to win the Best Picture award until I saw this. Much of this film reminded me of the typical Benny Hill comedy and we all know just how "well" those jokes have aged over the years.
Not only is the film ... Read More
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