Product Description

Winner* of four Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, and featuring a cast of superbplayers (Boxoffice) headed by the Oscar®-nominated** Albert Finney and Susannah York, this wickedly funny classic has been hailed as 'the best comedy ever made (Newsweek)! No one has ever lived as freely and carelessly as Tom Jones. Abandoned at birth and raised by a wealthy squire, Tom romps through English society leading a lusty life of brawling and bed-hopping until his bawdy behavior causes him to be sent away from his family, his home and the only womanhe's ever truly loved. But some men never learn, and soon Tom's escapades land him in the company of reckless scoundrels, the boudoirs of more women and, finally, in jail. Will Tom's charm save him or will the gallows be his last swing? *1963: Director, Adapted Screenplay, Music **Finney: Actor, Tom Jones (1963); Murder on the Orient Express (1974); The Dresser (1983); Under the Volcano (1984); York: Supporting Actress, They Shoot Horses, don't They? (1969)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28686 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-09-11
• Formats: Import, NTSC
• Original language: English

Customer Reviews

The Best of All Bawdy Romps and Period Pieces
Astonishing to find this wonderful work unreviewed on Amazon. It belongs to that tiny aristocracy of 'perfect' films, which include, to take a few random examples, The Sting (Redford and Newman), A Man for All Seasons (Scofield and York), Chinatown (Nicholson and Dunaway), and Deliverance (Voight and Reynolds). Such films entertain us deeply because they are executed with originality, sincerity, and a very strong story-telling sense. They have powerful casts, richly rendered settings, and satisfying attention to detail. One cannot imagine how any of them could have been made differently or better. Tom Jones is based of course on Henry Fielding's 1750 History of Tom Jones, A Foundling, and runs true to Fielding's impatience and amusement with hypocrisy and his delight in matters romantic, sexual, and improper. One cannot but love the impossible Mr. Jones; one cannot fail to cheer when his respectable enemies are confounded by their own pieties. When Tom misbehaves, one feels only a wistful joy: "If only I could sin so innocently and so well!"

Extremely Poor Visual Quality
The visual quality of this DVD is grainy, murky, scratched and wanting....
The video I have of this is far superior.....its a great movie but this DVD transfer is very poor...and detracts from the greatness of the movie...

A Classic !!
It doesn't get any better than this film..What a fun romp in the hay with all the actors. An explosion of characters all over the screen...You've got to get this for your collection.