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Tom Jones (Original title)
Dates: 1963 (Copyright), 25 August 1963 (Release)

Countries: United Kingdom, USA

Directed by: Tony Richardson

Synopsis: The picaresque adventures of a foundling adopted by a West Country squire in the 18th century.

Genres:
Comedy, Period drama

Subject:
18th century
Releases
Date: 1963Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 128 mins Length: 11565 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: March 2018Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Colour - SoundRuntime: 121 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer

Credits (40)
©/A Woodfall Film: Woodfall Film Productions, Production Company: United Artists, Produced by: Tony Richardson, Associate Producer: Michael Holden, Associate Producer: Oscar Lewenstein, Production Executive: Alan Kaplan, [United Artists Production Executive]: George 'Bud' Ornstein, Production Manager: Roy Millichip, Production Supervisor: Leigh Aman, Production Secretary: Jane Moscrop, Assistant Director: Gerry O'Hara, Personal Assistant to the Director: Jocelyn Tawse, [Assistant Director]: Andrew Mollo, Continuity: Rita Davison, [Casting Director]: John Merrick, Script Editor: Sewell Stokes, Screenplay by: John Osborne, Based on the novel by: Henry Fielding, Director of Photography: Walter Lassally, 2nd Unit Photography: Manny Wynn, Colour Consultant: Jocelyn Herbert, Assistant to Miss Herbert: Clare Jefferey, Camera Operator: Desmond Davis, Film Editor: Antony Gibbs, Assistant Editor: Brian Smedley-Aston, Production Designer: Ralph Brinton, Art Director: Ted Marshall, Set Decorator: Josie MacAvin, Wardrobe Supervisor: John McCorry, Wardrobe Mistress: Barbara Gillett, Chief Make-up: Alex Garfath, Chief Hairdresser: Sarah Beber, Colour by: Humphries Film Laboratories, Music Composed and Conducted by: John Addison, [Music] Played by: Sinfonia of London, Sound Recordist: Peter Handford, Sound System: Westrex Recording System, Sound Editor: Don Challis, [Aviation Services]: John Crewdson
Cast (36)
Micheál Macliammóir (Narration Spoken by), George Devine (Squire Allworthy), Rachel Kempson (Bridget Allworthy), Angela Baddeley (Mrs Wilkins), Joyce Redman ('Mrs Waters'/Jenny Jones), 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 (Lieutenant Northerton), Avis Bunnage (landlady at George Inn), Rosalind Knight (Mrs Fitzpatrick), Lynn Redgrave (Susan at Upton Inn), George A. Cooper (Mr Fitzpatrick), Jack Stewart (MacLachlan), Joan Greenwood (Lady Bellaston), Rosalind Atkinson (Mrs Miller), David Tomlinson (Lord Fellamar), Michael Brennan ([jailer at Newgate]), Annette Robertson ([Lady Bellaston's maid]), Apple Brook, Alan Baulch, Nicola Gentle, Melanie Gentle, Deborah Childs ([uncredited])