Tom Jones

Tom Jones is on the whole not a very good movie. It is in fact really falling apart at the seams. Pretty much everything in the film is very bad. The only real part I liked was the performance by Albert... Full review

Tom Jones(Albert Finney) is an 18 th century orphan who is adopted by an aristocrat but he lives his own life with mirth and freedom.The philander English lad has good heart and affinity for troubles and an eye for the ladies... Full review

This was the period when French New Wave was supposedly reinventing cinema. Unfortunately, the French could only do so by citing Hollywood forms (mostly gangsters) and placing them in new contexts. That left lots of room for an intelligent Hollywood... Full review

This is an adaptation of a large book, a Henry Fielding novel. In the early 1700's the growing middle class in Europe, especially in the British Empire, became literate. As an entertainment to get through the long hours of new... Full review

Finest of '60s British movies. DVD review.A bastard (Jones) falls for York but their rich families keep them apart.Still fresh movie that outshines anything from this year. Rare Oscar-winning movie that actually deserved its award - unlike most other winning... Full review

This was a great film in its time, and is still a great one today. Well-directed, well-acted, well-shot, great soundtrack, and based on a splendid literary vehicle. It's frustrating to see so much uninformed voting and so many uninformed remarks... Full review

Just two hundred years after Henry Fielding's novel appeared, the theatre-actor-turned-cinema-director Sir Tony Richardson rounded up a few Shakespearean-trained prodigees, got John Addison to compose hectic clavichord accompaniment a little in the style of Handel operas and set all this... Full review

While my mother claims this is a "guy movie," I'm not a guy and find it one of the funniest, most charming movies ever made. The narration, music and just plain spunky tone of this movie makes it a unique... Full review

A fun and fresh screen adaption of British writer Henry Fielding's 18th Century novel of the same name, made at the threshold of the swinging (19)Sixties. Like the original story's French counterpart (Les Liaisons Dangereuses=Dangerous Liaisons), at its heart is... Full review

Tome Jones came out of the wonderful 60's when all the stuffy conventions of British theater, film and music were turned upside down. I first saw this film while stationed in Wiltshire in the Royal Air Force, and having grown... Full review

The actor wanted Tom to be more serious and so he seems brusque when he's trying to be funny. Frankly, I've always thought of Tom Jones as the kind of tale pimply school-boys might have sniggered over behind the gym block while wagging class. ... Full Review

Narrated by veteran stage actor Michael MacLiammoir, this is an energetic, feel-good movie. Tony Richardson, UK, 1963, 128 minutes Tom Jones is most probably the film for which Tony Richardson will be best remembered. ... Full Review

Susannah York is Sophie Western, the woman whom Tom truly loves. HBO Home Video has given TOM JONES a respectable Letterboxed transfer, but the limitations in the film element are quite evident. ... Full Review

Washington, Apr 23 : Welsh pop singer Tim Jones will be honoured with a special award in recognition of his 'exceptional staying power' at the Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony. ... Full Article

Tom Jones is one of those movies I appreciate more than I enjoy. Though based on Henry Fielding's classic 18th-century novel, it seems at times little more than an excuse to revel in the licentiousness of the burgeoning free-love atmosphere... ... Full Article

If I'm in the mood for a bawdy tale of Ye Olden Days, I know where to go: the 1983 version of Fanny Hill . While the movie itself was a lame piece that offered no fun or drama, it ... Full Article

Tom Jones (Albert Finney) es un joven despreocupado y atractivo que ha sido adoptado por el adinerado Squire Allworthy (George Devine) tras haber sido concebido por una criada de ste llamada Jenny Jones, quien fue despedida de sus labores despus... ... Full Article

Winner of four Academy Awards including best picture, director, screenplay, and music, this 1963 adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel is a rousing, bawdy comedy about a young man's ribald adventures in 18th-century England. ... Full Article

Yet food and drink and entertainment have always overlapped, always intermingled, always exchanged fist-bumps and high-fives, and not just in football stadiums and in living rooms with big-screen TV s. ... Full Article