Originally released as a motion picture in 1963. Based on the novel "The history of Tom Jones" by Henry Fielding. Includes Theatrical version (1963; 128 min.); Director's cut (1989; 121 min.) Features: new program on the film's cinematography featuring Lassally; new interview with film scholar Duncan Petrie on the movie's impact on British cinema; excerpt from a 1982 episode of The Dick Cavett show featuring actor Albert Finney; new interview with actor Vanessa Redgrave on her former husband, director Tony Richardson; illustrated archival audio interview with composer John Addison on his Oscar-winning score for the film; new interview with the editor of the director's cut, Robert Lambert. Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood, Diane Cilento.
Summary:
Follows the bawdy activities of Tom Jones, a foundling of mysterious origin, adopted by a squire in eighteenth-century England.
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