Tom Jones (1963)
Country: GB
Technical: col 129m
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith
Synopsis:
A country lad born on a landed squire's property makes his way in the world.
Review:
There can be few filmic devices eschewed by Richardson on the basis that they did not fit the period: this is an adaptation that gained in vigour from being made at the time of the British new wave and by one of its chief film-makers. For all its formal inventiveness it is a restrained piece, saving it from the too facile bawdiness of the same director's Joseph Andrews (and many other imitations). The lusty dinner scene and hunt sequence are standouts.
Country: GB
Technical: col 129m
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith
Synopsis:
A country lad born on a landed squire's property makes his way in the world.
Review:
There can be few filmic devices eschewed by Richardson on the basis that they did not fit the period: this is an adaptation that gained in vigour from being made at the time of the British new wave and by one of its chief film-makers. For all its formal inventiveness it is a restrained piece, saving it from the too facile bawdiness of the same director's Joseph Andrews (and many other imitations). The lusty dinner scene and hunt sequence are standouts.
Country: GB
Technical: col 129m
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith
Synopsis:
A country lad born on a landed squire's property makes his way in the world.
Review:
There can be few filmic devices eschewed by Richardson on the basis that they did not fit the period: this is an adaptation that gained in vigour from being made at the time of the British new wave and by one of its chief film-makers. For all its formal inventiveness it is a restrained piece, saving it from the too facile bawdiness of the same director's Joseph Andrews (and many other imitations). The lusty dinner scene and hunt sequence are standouts.