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    Tom Jones (1963)

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    This romping bawdy adaptation of Henry Fielding’s picaresque novel of the 18th Century was an enormous hit and won Oscars in 1963 for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Scoring

    Albert Finney stars in the title role as the young man who travels to London to seek his fortune.

    Finney’s brilliant co-stars include Hugh Griffith as the roistering Squire Western, Susannah York as his daughter – and Tom’s true love – Sophie, and Edith Evans as Sophie’s prudish aunt, who rebukes an importunate highwayman with the words, “Stand and deliver? I am no travelling midwife!”

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    The sluttish Molly Seagrim (Diane Cilento), “that troll Mrs Waters” (Joyce Redman) and “the notorious Lady Bellaston” (Joan Greenwood) are just three of the women Tom becomes involved with.

    The plot is rudimentary, but it doesn’t matter because there’s so much fun to be had from the film’s mechanics.

    John Osborne’s witty script is brilliantly aided by the score by John Addison and Richardson’s direction which makes ample use of several venerable film techniques – a split second freeze, a wipe across the screen, and even actors addressing the audience directly.

    Tom Jones
    Albert Finney
    Sophie Western
    Susannah York
    Squire Western
    Hugh Griffith
    Molly Seagrim
    Diane Cilento
    Miss Western
    Edith Evans
    ‘Mrs Waters’/Jenny Jones
    Joyce Redman
    Lady Bellaston
    Joan Greenwood
    Narrator

    Micheál Macliammóir
    Squire Allworthy
    George Devine
    Bridget Allworthy
    Rachel Kempson
    Mrs Wilkins
    Angela Baddeley
    Partridge
    Jack MacGowran
    Black George
    Wilfred Lawson
    Square
    John Moffatt
    Thwackum
    Peter Bull
    Blifil
    David Warner
    Mrs Seagrim
    Freda Jackson
    Lawyer Dowling
    Redmond Phillips
    Parson Supple
    James Cairncross
    Honor
    Patsy Rowlands
    Lieutenant Northerton
    Julian Glover
    Mrs Fitzpatrick
    Rosalind Knight
    Susan at Upton Inn
    Lynn Redgrave
    Mr Fitzpatrick
    George A. Cooper
    MacLachlan
    Jack Stewart
    Mrs Miller
    Rosalind Atkinson
    Lord Fellamar
    David Tomlinson

    Director
    Tony Richardson

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