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Winner of four Academy Awards including best picture, director, screenplay, and music, this 1963 adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel is a rou...(read more...) sing, 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 Richardson uses a variety of old-style movie techniques to heighten the lusty, good-natured fun. Don't miss this one! --Jeff Shannon

Director: Tony Richardson

MPAA: Unrated

Running Time: 121 min.

Release Date: Oct 07, 1963

Cast: Albert Finney, Angela Baddeley, Avis Bunnage, David Tomlinson, Diane Cilento, Edith Evans, Freda Jackson, George A. Cooper, George Devine, Hugh Griffith, Jack MacGowran, Joan Greenwood, John Osborne, Joyce Redman, Julian Glover, Lynn Redgrave, Mark Dignam, Michael Brennan, Patsy Rowlands, Peter Bull, Rachel Kempson, Rosalind Atkinson, Rosalind Knight, Susannah York, Wilfrid Lawson