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Tom Jones

Year:

1963

Duration:

128 min | USA:121 min (director's cut)

Genres:

Adventure | Comedy | History

IMDB rate:

6.8

Director:

Tony Richardson

Awards:

Won 4 Oscars. Another 18 wins & 18 nominations

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 1963-12-11

Filming Locations: Bridgwater, Somerset, England, UK

Earnings

Budget: $1,000,000

Gross: $37,600,000 (USA)$50,000,000 (Worldwide)

Cast

Actor

Character

David Tomlinson

Tom Jones

George Devine

Squire Allworthy

Rachel Kempson

Bridget Allworthy

Angela Baddeley

Mrs. Wilkins

Joyce Redman

Jenny Jones - Mrs. Waters

Jack MacGowran

Partridge

Albert Finney

Tom Jones

Diane Cilento

Molly Seagrim

Wilfrid Lawson

Black George

John Moffatt

Square

Peter Bull

Thwackum

David Warner

Blifil

Freda Jackson

Mrs. Seagrim

Redmond Phillips

Lawyer Dowling

Hugh Griffith

Squire Western

Susannah York

Sophie Western

James Cairncross

Parson Supple

Edith Evans

Miss Western

Patsy Rowlands

Honor

Mark Dignam

Lieutenant

Julian Glover

Northernton

Avis Bunnage

Landlady - George Inn

Rosalind Knight

Mrs. Fitzpatrick

Lynn Redgrave

Susan - Upton Inn

George A. Cooper

Mr. Fitzpatrick

Jack Stewart

MacLachlan

Joan Greenwood

Lady Bellaston

Rosalind Atkinson

Mrs. Miller

Micheál MacLiammóir

Narrator (voice) (as Micheál Mac Liammóir)

Catherine Willmer

Upton Barmaid (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Film debut of Julian Glover.

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David Warner (Blifil) and Susannah York (Sophie Western) will star as Bob and Mrs. Cratchit in the 1984 Clive Donner version of "A Christmas Carol".

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First credited film role for Lynn Redgrave. (Redgrave had one previous film role, a "blink and you'll miss it" uncredited bit part in Shoot to Kill (1960), filmed three years before this film.)

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Goofs

In the scene where Tom Jones and Sophie Western are riding around on various horses within a barnyard area, one of the barn sheds in the background has an area of its roof repaired with corrugated iron. The story was set in the mid-1700s but corrugated iron wasn't invented until the 1820s.

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One of the dogs on Squire Allworthy's estate is a Golden Retriever. It can be seen trying to follow Tom when he is banished from the estate. The film is set during the time of the Jacobite Rebellion which began in 1745. The Golden Retriever was first bred in Scotland in 1868, more than 100 years after the time when the film was set.

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In the hunt scene, you can clearly see that the riders are following on a path made by automobiles. The path has tire tracks all along.

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Quotes

Squire Western: Madam, I despise your politics as much as I do a fart.

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Squire Allworthy: [to Tom, when not expected to recover from a carriage accident] I am convinced, my boy, that you have much goodness, generosity and honor in your nature. If you will add prudence and religion to those, you must be happy.

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Squire Allworthy: [Upon discovering an abandoned baby in his bed, which they suspect Jenny, one of the servants, has put there] Who is the father, Jenny?

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Faq

Is this film based on a novel?

Yes, it is based on The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding, published in 1749.

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