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