Albert Finney, Angela Baddeley, Avis Bunnage

In 18th century England, an abandoned orphan is adopted by a Squire. The young Tom Jones grows up to become a bawdy womanizer.

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Unrated, 2 hrs. 1 min.

Directed by: Tony Richardson

Release Date: January 1, 1963

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DVD Release Date: October 30, 1997

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  • March 10, 2009
    I had a hard time wrapping my mind around this one and appreciating this type of bawdy British humor and melodrama. There are some weird Keystone Cops kind of sped up action sequences that just left me thinking, "Huh?". I really thought I was going to find this a total waste of...( read more) time till the movie got to about half way through. When Tom Jones leaves home by foot to see London and make his own way in the world it suddenly became much more interesting to me.
  • November 25, 2007
    a messy disappointment - maybe cuz the washed out mgm dvd transfer blows
  • June 17, 2008
    Disappointing compared to Tony Richardson's earlier films.

    The best part of the film has got to be:

    THE HIGHWAYMAN:"Stand and deliver!"
    MISS WESTERN:"What?"
    THE HIGHWAYMAN:"Stand and deliver!"
    MISS WESTERN:"Deliver?Deliver what?I am no traveling midwife!"
  • April 16, 2009
    By idiosyncratic framing Tom Jones' picaresque adventure through an amalgam of traditional film comedy conventions, Richardson creates an inspired duality that paradoxically underscores the film's conventionality even as it subverts it: from the breaking of fourth wall address (a...( read more)nd symbolically, the distance to the spectator), to integrating innovative wipe cuts that consciously introduces an element of anachronism (and consequently, reinforces its contemporaneity), to sardonic, tongue in cheek narration (a strategy that anticipates John Hurt's wry commentary in Lars von Trier's Dogville), to self-referential parody (creating an underlying lightness and humor that Michael Winterbottom's subsequently incorporates to good effect in Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story).
  • February 23, 2009
    Probably very good back in its day, but sort of blah now. It is pretty humorous, though.
  • November 20, 2008
    Im shore its a good story some how. but this is to dirty and discuzting.
  • October 19, 2008
    For its time, this sexually provocative story was bold. Now it just comes across terribly dated. Despite the genius of Albert Finney, this movie is rather dull and uninspired. Perhaps, I need to be more British...
  • August 10, 2008
    Pretty good about a guy who has a hard life in the minor gentry of England.
  • April 24, 2008
    Quite funny but not in the riotous manner many of today's audience expects.
  • December 25, 2007
    A spirited and delightful comedy of manners, this film caused a sensation in its day but, from the looks of some other contemporary comments, is looked down upon and seen as dated by a lot of viewers these days. That's quite a shame, since its energy and humor are a joy to experi...( read more)ence. The movie is viscerally entertaining and kinetic in a way I've rarely seen in any earlier film; the fox hunt sequence is particularly astounding. Visually and story-wise, this is rather like 'Barry Lyndon,' only more fun. 'Tom Jones' is - and I love saying this about films from the sixties and before - a total blast.

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