TOM JONES [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1963
• Genre: Adventure; Comedy
• Plot: In the early 1960s, at the height of the British New Wave, a movement whose gritty realism they had helped establish, director Tony Richardson and playwright John Osborne set out for more fanciful narrative territory. Tom Jones brings a theatrical flair to Henry Fielding s canonical eighteenth-century novel, boisterously chronicling the misadventures of the foundling of the title (Albert Finney, in a career-defining turn), whose easy charm seems to lead him astray at every turn from his beloved, the wellborn Sophie Western (Susannah York). This spirited picaresque, evocatively shot in England s rambling countryside and featuring an extraordinary ensemble cast, went on to become a worldwide sensation, winning the Oscar for best picture on the way to securing its status as a classic of irreverent wit and playful cinematic expression.; ;
• Cast: George Devine; Rachel Kempson; Angela Baddeley; Joyce Redman; Jack MacGowran; Albert Finney; Diane Cilento; Wilfrid Lawson; John Moffatt; Peter Bull; David Warner; Freda Jackson; Redmond Phillips; Hugh Griffith; Susannah York; James Cairncross; Edith Evans; Patsy Rowlands; Mark Dignam; Julian Glover; Avis Bunnage; Rosalind Knight; Lynn Redgrave; George A. Cooper; Jack Stewart; Joan Greenwood; Rosalind Atkinson; David Tomlinson; Micheál MacLiammóir; Garrett Cassell; Roberta Gibbs; Hilda Green; Barbara Hicks; Mark Loosemore; Paddy Ryan; Catherine Willmer; Fred Wood; Tony Richardson; John Osborne; Henry Fielding
• Director: Tony Richardson
• Runtime: 2:01
• Company: United Artists Corporation, Inc., Woodfall Film Productions Ltd., Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie