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Tom Jones [DVD]
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October 30, 1997 "Please retry" | — | — | $36.99 | $5.32 |
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| Format | Closed-captioned, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, NTSC, Widescreen, Color |
| Contributor | George A. Cooper, Tony Richardson, Joan Greenwood, Edith Evans, John Osborne, Diane Cilento, Rosalind Atkinson, George Devine, Henry Fielding, Albert Finney, Mark Dignam, Angela Baddeley, Hugh Griffith, David Tomlinson, Susannah York See more |
| Language | English, French |
| Runtime | 2 hours and 8 minutes |
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Director Tony Richardson and scripter John Osborne's sprawling, bawdy romp through 18th-century England earned four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Albert Finney stars as the titular hero, a charming country boy whose beguiling manner gets him into one hilarious romantic misadventure after another; based on the novel by Henry Fielding. With Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, David Warner, and Edith Evans.
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.66:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Package Dimensions : 7.52 x 5.35 x 0.71 inches; 2.88 ounces
- Director : Tony Richardson
- Media Format : Closed-captioned, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, NTSC, Widescreen, Color
- Run time : 2 hours and 8 minutes
- Release date : June 19, 2001
- Actors : Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood
- Dubbed: : Spanish
- Subtitles: : Spanish, French
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
- Studio : MGM (Video & DVD)
- ASIN : B00005AUKE
- Writers : Henry Fielding, John Osborne
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #14,394 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,577 in Action & Adventure DVDs
- #1,812 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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Can her beauty, love, and virtue make a gentleman out of Tom Jones? Sorry -- no spoilers here, except to say that Hugh Griffith, the noted Welsh actor, portrayed a drunken sot neighbor and the father of Sophie Western, the character portrayed by Susannah York. True fact: Griffith was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor for his role, and he should have won, but it was film-making type-casting -- Griffith was rip-roaring drunk nearly all of the time. No wonder he was so terrific!
This was one of my favorites as a very young kid of 9 when it came out, and while it's a bit bawdy for kids (or one would HOPE these days), it is hilarious. The erotic eating scene, done with no dialogue for several minutes, was marvelous. As one who has won a Best Screenplay competition, I know how difficult it is to describe scenes such as this -- everything must be SHOWN, not Told in expository fashion. I once wrote a 3 minute 40 second undressing scene that is unmistakably erotic, yet no flesh is shown. My son, a young teenager at the time, padded upstairs in his stocking feet, and while I listened to the music to which the scene was set and concentrated on the undressing, he was reading over my shoulder. "DAD! You're such a perv!" he squawked. "No, Ian," I countered. "A perv would describe a guy smearing a female mannequin with mayonnaise." Guess I did it well, for that was the script that won out over two OTHERS I wrote that also made the finals.
Tom Jones is brilliant ensemble acting, with well-defined characters, proper character arc, blah blah blah -- AND is funnier than hell all the way through. Watch for Joan Greenwood, who portrays a wealthy Londoner looking to make our Tom her gigolo. Her distinctive elegant upper-class accent will be recognized by fans of the 1960 sci-fi classic "Mysterious Island," as the shipwrecked Lady Mary Fairchild. Enjoy a true film classic!
I also appreciated the performances of David Warner, as the disgustingly priggish tutor, Mr. Bliful, and Diane Cilento (once married to Sean Connery...) as Tom's sometime paramour. The entire cast is excellent, including Joan Greenwood as the predatory older woman after Tom at any cost. Watch for the Masquerade Ball and see Hugh Griffith in his elephant mask; what a great scene!
The peripheral players are superb, as is the setting of London in the eighteenth century, with the deplorable lack of sanitary conditions and the terrible poverty. The music is haunting, the scene at the Inn (yes, the food scene, of course, one of the more outstanding in the movie) but also the frenetic byplay of the characters winding up in each other's beds with different wives and lovers, it is such a classic melange of humor, drama and near tragedy, there simply isn't one moment of bad film or minute of tedium...you will be absorbed all the way through, and enjoy this rambunctious, joyful frolic with Tom and his supporting cast of finely drawn characters. One last comment: The scene of Tom and Sophie, running, taking turns rowing a boat and falling in love on the grounds of her father's estate, is absolutely beautiful; watch for the scene of them picking blossoms and Sophie laughing and the blossoms falling into her mouth; very sensual and exquisitely detailed, as is the entire production.
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Le peripezie aumentano tra i vezzi di una popolana e l'amore della giovane figlia di un ottuso grande vicino. Poi aumentano ancora: Tom deve andarsene di casa (con 500 sterline che perde immediatamente). La complicata situazione si fa ancora piu` complessa e alla fine il povero Tom viene condannato a morte. Ma viene salvato all'ultimo istante.
Non parlo dell'immensa quantita` di storie che passano sullo schermo: vi diro` soltanto che il film e` straordinario: se ne gode a puntino ogni istante. Una vera delizia. Interpreti d'eccezione.

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