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Description: For more than three decades a popular singer
Full Name: Thomas Jones Woordward
Year: 1963
Classification: Comedy
Birthdate: 7 June 1940
Place Of Birth: Pontypridd, United Kingdom
State: top/arts/music/bands_and_artists/j/jones,_tom
Directed:
- Tony Richardson
Actors/Actresses:
- Albert Finney
- Susannah York
Brother(s):
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I saw this in the theatre when it was first released, and the passage of time has done nothing to dim my love and fascination of this superb translation of the novel by Fielding. Of course, Albert Finney made a very dashing Tom Jones, and wqas so perfectly suited to the role;
Hits:
- Sex Bomb
- Green, Green Grass Of Home
- It's not unusual
- Kiss
- Delilah
Discography:
- It's Not Unusual ( (1965) )
- What's New Pussycat? ( (1965) )
- A-Tom-Ic Jones ( (1966) )
- Green, Green Grass of Home ( (1967) )
- Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings ( (1967) )
- The Tom Jones Fever Zone ( (1968) )
- Help Yourself ( (1968) )
- Delilah ( (1968) )
- This Is Tom Jones ( (1969) )
- Tom ( (1970) )
- I (Who Have Nothing) ( (1970) )
- She's A Lady ( (1971) )
- Close Up ( (1972) )
- The Body and Soul of Tom Jones ( (1973) )
- Somethin' 'Bout You Baby I Like ( (1974) )
- Memories Don't Leave Like People Do ( (1975) )
- Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow ( (1977) )
- What A Night ( (1977) )
- Rescue Me ( (1979) )
- Darlin' ( (1981) )
- Country ( (1982) )
- Don't Let Our Dreams Die Young ( (1983) )
- Love Is On the Radio ( (1984) )
- Tender Loving Care ( (1985) )
- Move Closer ( (1989) )
- The Lead and How to Swing It ( (1994) )
- Reload ( (2000) )
- Very Best Of
- Tom Jones Greatest Hits
- The Legends Collection
- The Complete Tom Jones
- Mr Jones
- Carrying A Torch
- Best Of Tom Jones
LOVE this movie!!!!
I saw this in the theatre when it was first released, and the passage of time has done nothing to dim my love and fascination of this superb translation of the novel by Fielding. Of course, Albert Finney made a very dashing Tom Jones, and wqas so perfectly suited to the role; Susannah York great as his true love, Sophie, and the other roles, Hugh Griffith as Sophie's father, and hilarious in his part as a drunken, boisterous, lusty squire, and Dame Edith Evans as his rather disapproving, but very funny sister, reprimanding him with a trilling "Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrother...." while he is wrestling some country maidens in the haystacks, straw in his hair and a pack of bulldogs surrounding him. The dinner scene with him eating a roast chicken with great gusto, so much so that he harangues Sophie with pieces of it in his nose, is delightful, as is his unscripted departure from Squire Allworthy's residence, on his horse, and turning so tightly that the horse rears and collapses with Hugh Griffith on top of him...so funny Richardson wisely decided to keep it in the film.BR>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!BR>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 ot
isingly accurate...
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