Editing Tom Jones (1963 film)

{{Short description|1963 British film by Tony Richardson}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Tom Jones
| image          = Poster - Tom Jones 01.jpg
| alt            = 
| caption        = Theatrical poster by [[Mitchell Hooks]]
| director       = [[Tony Richardson]]
| producer       = Tony Richardson
| screenplay     = [[John Osborne]]
| based_on       = {{Based on|''[[The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling]]''<br>(1749 novel)|[[Henry Fielding]]}}
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Albert Finney]]
* [[Susannah York]]
* [[Hugh Griffith]]
* [[Edith Evans]]
* [[Joan Greenwood]]
* [[Diane Cilento]]
* [[George Devine]]
* [[David Tomlinson]]
}}
| narrator       = [[Micheál Mac Liammóir]]
| music          = [[John Addison]]
| cinematography = [[Walter Lassally]]
| editing        = [[Antony Gibbs]]
| studio         = [[Woodfall Film Productions]]
| distributor    = [[United Artists]]
| released       = {{Film date|df=yes|1963|06|26}}
| runtime        = 128 minutes
| country        = United Kingdom
| language       = English
| budget         = £467,000<ref>Film giants step into finance The Observer 19 April 1964: 8.</ref><ref name="petrie">{{cite journal|url=http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/114988/1/Bryanston_Films_An_Experiment_in_Cooperative_Independent_Film_Production_and_Distribution.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180719020633/http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/114988/1/Bryanston_Films_An_Experiment_in_Cooperative_Independent_Film_Production_and_Distribution.pdf |archive-date=2018-07-19 |url-status=live|last=Petrie|first= Duncan James |year=2017|title= Bryanston Films : An Experiment in Cooperative Independent Production and Distribution|journal= Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television| issn= 1465-3451|page=13 }}</ref><ref>Chapman, L. (2021). “They wanted a bigger, more ambitious film”: Film Finances and the American “Runaways” That Ran Away. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 18(2), 176–197. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2021.0565</ref> or £480,000<ref name="money">Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 360</ref>
| gross          = $17.07 million (U.S. and Canada rentals)
<ref name=variety1990>{{cite magazine|date=15 October 1990|title=All Time Film Rental Champs|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|issn=0042-2738|page=M-190|first=Lawrence|last=Cohn}}</ref>
}}
'''''Tom Jones''''' is a 1963 British [[Historical drama|period]] [[comedy film]], an adaptation of [[Henry Fielding]]'s classic 1749 novel ''[[The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling]]''. It is directed by [[Tony Richardson]] from a screenplay written by [[John Osborne]], and stars [[Albert Finney]] as the titular character. The cast also features [[Susannah York]], [[Hugh Griffith]], [[Edith Evans]], [[Joan Greenwood]], [[Diane Cilento]], and [[David Warner (actor)|David Warner]] in his film debut.

The film was a success both critically and at the box office, and was one of the most critically acclaimed and popular comedies of its time.<ref name="nytimes50295">{{Cite news |author=Bosley Crowther |date=30 September 2003 |title=Tom Jones |url=http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=50295 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031001023857/http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=50295 |archive-date=2003-10-01 |access-date=25 May 2010 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref>  At the [[36th Academy Awards]], it was nominated for ten [[Academy Awards|Oscars]], winning four: [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] for Richardson, [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]] and [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score]]. It also won two [[Golden Globe Awards]], including [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]], and three [[British Academy Film Awards|BAFTA Awards]], including [[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Film]] and [[BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film|Best British Film]].

In 1999, the [[British Film Institute]] ranked it as the [[BFI Top 100 British films|51st greatest British film of the 20th century]].

==Plot==
Squire Allworthy returns to his estate and discovers a baby in his bed. Thinking that one of his maids, Jenny Jones, and his barber, Mr. Partridge, conceived the illegitimate baby out of lust, the squire banishes them. He names the infant Tom Jones and chooses to raise him as his own son; Tom grows up loving him like a father.

Tom becomes a lively young man whose good looks and kind heart make him popular with women. He truly loves only Sophie, daughter of a neighbour, who returns his love. Sophie, too, must hide her feelings while her aunt and father, Squire Western, try to coerce her to marry someone they think more suitable, Mr. Blifil, the son of Squire Allworthy's sister, Bridget.

When Bridget dies unexpectedly, Blifil intercepts a letter that his mother intended for his uncle's eyes only. But after his mother's funeral, Blifil and his two tutors, Mr. Thwackum and Mr. Square (who had also tutored Tom), join forces to convince the squire that Tom is a villain. Allworthy gives Tom a substantial cash legacy and sends him out into the world to seek his fortune.

Tom is robbed of his fortune, but soon meets his supposed father, Mr. Partridge, who becomes his manservant. Tom rescues a Mrs. Waters/Fitzpatrick from a British soldier, but ends up in a duel and is later jailed and about to be hanged for murder before it is discovered that the letter that Bridget had written to Squire Allworthy confessed that she is Tom's mother. It is discovered also that Tom had not murdered Mr. Fitzpatrick in the duel.

They are able to reach the jail in time to save Tom from hanging.  Tom and Sophie are able to marry with everyone's blessing.

==Cast==
{{Cast listing|
* [[Albert Finney]] as Tom Jones
** Lynn Goldsworthy as infant Tom
* [[Susannah York]] as Sophie Western
* [[Hugh Griffith]] as Squire Western
* [[Edith Evans]] as Miss Western
* [[Joan Greenwood]] as Lady Bellaston
* [[Diane Cilento]] as Molly Seagrim
* [[George Devine]] as Squire Allworthy
* [[David Tomlinson]] as Lord Fellamar
* Rosalind Atkinson as Mrs. Millar
* [[Wilfrid Lawson (actor)|Wilfrid Lawson]] as Black George
* [[Rosalind Knight]] as Mrs. Fitzpatrick
* [[Jack MacGowran]] as Partridge
* [[Freda Jackson]] as Mrs. Seagrim
* [[David Warner (actor)|David Warner]] as Blifil
* [[Joyce Redman]] as Mrs. Waters/Jenny Jones
* James Cairncross as Parson Supple
* [[Rachel Kempson]] as Bridget Allworthy
* [[Peter Bull]] as Thwackum
* [[Angela Baddeley]] as Mrs. Wilkins
* [[George A. Cooper]] as Fitzpatrick
* [[Jack Stewart (actor)|Jack Stewart]] as MacLachlan
* [[Patsy Rowlands]] as Honour
* [[John Moffatt (actor)|John Moffatt]] as Square
* [[Avis Bunnage]] as Innkeeper
* [[Mark Dignam]] as Lieutenant
* [[Michael Brennan (actor)|Michael Brennan]] as Jailer at Newgate
* [[Lynn Redgrave]] as Susan, Bristol Inn
* [[Redmond Phillips]] as Lawyer Dowling
* [[Julian Glover]] as Northerton
}}

==Production==
===Development===
While the British production company [[Bryanston Films (UK)|Bryanston Films]] was hesitating over whether to make the film in colour, it went bankrupt. [[United Artists]] stepped in to finance the film and make it a colour production.<ref>{{cite book|page=xiv|last= Mayer|first= Geoff|title=Guide to British Cinema|publisher= Greenwood Publishing Group|year= 2003}}</ref>

Overall the production faced challenges of disasters, near-disasters and squabbles caused by films being shot on location in the spotty English weather. The film has an unusual comic style: the opening sequence has [[intertitles]] and brisk action in the manner of a [[silent film]]. Later in the film, characters sometimes break the [[fourth wall]], often by looking directly into the camera and addressing the audience. In one scene the character of Tom Jones suddenly appears to notice the camera and covers the lens with his hat. Another unusual feature is an unseen narrator, voiced by [[Micheál Mac Liammóir]]. His mock-serious commentaries between certain scenes deplore the action of several characters as well as the weaknesses in human character, and he provides a poetic [[Dramatic structure|denouement]] for the film.

Despite its success, director [[Tony Richardson]] said that he was dissatisfied with the final product. In his autobiography, Richardson wrote that he "felt the movie to be incomplete and botched in much of its execution. I am not knocking that kind of success – everyone should have it – but whenever someone gushes to me about ''Tom Jones'', I always cringe a little inside."<ref>{{Cite book  | last = Richardson  | first = Tony  | title = Long Distance Runner – A memoir  | publisher = Faber & Faber  | year = 1993  | location = London  | page = 136  | isbn = 0-571-16852-3 }}</ref>

===Writing===
[[John Osborne]], in adapting the screenplay from [[Henry Fielding]]'s novel ''[[The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling]]'' (1749), truncated and removed notable episodes and characters from the book. 
He ends the film with the narrator's quoting from a portion of [[John Dryden]]'s poetic translation of [[Horace]]'s Ode: ''To Maecenas:''  
<blockquote>"Happy the man, and happy he alone,<br>He who can call today his own: <br />He who, secure within, can say, <br />Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/54361/54361-h/54361-h.htm|title=The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Works of John Dryden vol 12, by Walter Scott, page 349|via=Project Gutenberg|language=en|access-date=2018-09-28}}</ref></blockquote>

===Filming===
[[Castle Street, Bridgwater|Castle Street]] in [[Bridgwater]], [[Somerset]] was used as a location in several scenes. [[Cerne Abbey]], Abbey Street and The Royal Oak in [[Cerne Abbas]] were used as major locations during the film. Cinematographer [[Walter Lassally]] has said that he thought the location unit got on very well together under the circumstances and that the experience was satisfying. He thought Richardson rather lost his way in post-production, endlessly fixing what was not really broken.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.webofstories.com/play/14061?o=MS|title=Tom Jones: the editing and Tony Richardson's generosity|website=webofstories.com}}</ref>

==Release==
The film was reissued in 1989 by [[The Samuel Goldwyn Company]]. For this release, Richardson trimmed the film by seven minutes.<ref name = "nytimes50295"/> It is available through the Criterion Collection, paired with the original version.

===Critical reception===
''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine's review stated "The film is a way-out, walleyed, wonderful exercise in cinema. It is also a social satire written in blood with a broadaxe. It is bawdy as the British were bawdy when a wench had to wear five petticoats to barricade her virtue".<ref>{{cite magazine |date= 18 October 1963 |title= Cinema: John Bull in His Barnyard |url= http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,873797,00.html |magazine= Time }}{{Subscription required}}</ref>

Rich Gold of ''Variety'' wrote "Though ''Tom Jones'' is a period piece and very different it has the same lustiness and boisterous content with which to project the star. It should breeze its way cheerfully through the box office figures. It has sex, [[Eastmancolor]], some prime performers and plenty of action. Tony Richardson has directed John Osborne's screenplay with verve, though, occasionally, he falls back on camera tricks and editing which are disconcerting".<ref>{{cite web |date= 21 December 1998 |author= Variety Staff |title= Tom Jones |url= https://variety.com/1998/film/reviews/tom-jones-5-1200456187/ |website= [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] }}</ref>

On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has an approval rating of 81% based on retrospective reviews from 42 critics, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The site's consensus states: "A frantic, irreverent adaptation of the novel, bolstered by Albert Finney's courageous performance and arresting visuals."<ref>{{cite web |title= Tom Jones (1963) |url= https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tom_jones |website= [[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date= 2 July 2023 }}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], it has a score of 77 out of 100, based on reviews from 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web |title= Tom Jones |url= https://www.metacritic.com/movie/tom-jones |publisher= [[Metacritic]] |access-date= 4 February 2020 }}</ref>

===Box office===
The film was financially successful on its initial release in 1963. It came third for the year in British box-office receipts,<ref>{{cite news|title=Most Popular Films of 1963|newspaper=[[The Times]]|location=London, England|date=3 January 1964|page=4}}</ref> and was the fourth most popular in the United States. Produced on a budget of $1 million, it earned over $17 million in [[Theatrical rental|theater rentals]] from the United States and Canada,<ref name=variety1990/><ref name="tino">{{cite book|first=Tino|last=Balio|title=United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|year=1987|pages=230, 239–240}}</ref> and another $4 million in markets other than the UK and U.S.<ref name="tino"/> Finney received 10% of the film's earnings.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=21 October 1964|page=1|title=Finney's % of 'Tom Jones' Goes Over $1 Million}}</ref>

===Accolades===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
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! Award
! Category
! Nominee(s)
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| rowspan="10"| [[36th Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]
| rowspan="2"| [[Tony Richardson]]
| {{won}}
| align="center" rowspan="10"| <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1964 |title=The 36th Academy Awards (1964) Nominees and Winners |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date=May 4, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502002917/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1964 |archive-date=May 2, 2015}}</ref> <br> <ref name="NY Times">{{Cite news|url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/50295/Tom-Jones/awards |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113192323/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/50295/Tom-Jones/awards |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 January 2012 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |year=2012 |title=NY Times: Tom Jones |access-date=25 December 2008}}</ref>
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| [[Albert Finney]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| [[Hugh Griffith]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="3"| [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
| [[Diane Cilento]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Edith Evans]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Joyce Redman]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium]]
| [[John Osborne]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction – Color]]
| Art Direction: [[Ralph W. Brinton]], [[Ted Marshall]], and [[Jocelyn Herbert]]; <br> Set Decoration: [[Josie MacAvin]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Music Score – Substantially Original]]
| [[John Addison]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[American Cinema Editors|American Cinema Editors Awards]]
| [[American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical|Best Edited Feature Film]]
| [[Antony Gibbs]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| rowspan="6"| [[17th British Academy Film Awards|British Academy Film Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Film from any Source]]
| {{won}}
| align="center" rowspan="6"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1964/film |title=BAFTA Awards: Film in 1964 |publisher=[[British Academy Film Awards]] |access-date=October 28, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="2"| [[BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film|Best British Film]]
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role|Best British Actor]]
| Albert Finney
| {{nom}}
|-
| Hugh Griffith
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|Best British Actress]]
| Edith Evans
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay|Best British Screenplay]]
| John Osborne
| {{won}}
|-
| [[16th Directors Guild of America Awards|Directors Guild of America Awards]]
| [[Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film|Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures]]
| Tony Richardson
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dga.org/Awards/History/1960s/1963.aspx?value=1963 |title=16th Annual DGA Awards |publisher=[[Directors Guild of America Awards]] |access-date=October 28, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="7"| [[21st Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| {{won}}
| align="center" rowspan="7"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/tom-jones |title=Tom Jones |publisher=[[Golden Globe Awards]] |access-date=October 28, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="2"| [[Golden Globe Award for Best English-Language Foreign Film|Best Foreign Film – English-Language]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| Albert Finney
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture]]
| Hugh Griffith
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture]]
| [[Joan Greenwood]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Director|Best Director – Motion Picture]]
| Tony Richardson
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor|Most Promising Newcomer – Male]]
| Albert Finney
| {{won}}{{efn|Tied with [[Stathis Giallelis]] for ''[[America America]]'' and [[Robert Walker Jr.]] for ''[[The Ceremony (1963 film)|The Ceremony]]''.}}
|-
| [[6th Annual Grammy Awards|Grammy Awards]]
| [[Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media|Best Original Score from a Motion Picture or Television Show]]
| John Addison
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/awards/6th-annual-grammy-awards |title=6th Annual GRAMMY Awards |publisher=[[Grammy Awards]] |access-date=October 28, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="4"| [[Laurel Awards]]
| colspan="2"| Top Comedy
| {{won}}
| align="center" rowspan="4"| 
|-
| Top Male Comedy Performance
| Albert Finney
| {{nom}}
|-
| Top Male Supporting Performance
| Hugh Griffith
| {{nom}}
|-
| Top Female Supporting Performance
| Diane Cilento
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="3"| [[National Board of Review Awards 1963|National Board of Review Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Board of Review Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
| {{won}}
| align="center" rowspan="3"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1963/ |title=1963 Award Winners |publisher=[[National Board of Review]] |access-date=October 28, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="2"| [[National Board of Review: Top Ten Films|Top Ten Films]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[National Board of Review Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| Tony Richardson
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="3"| [[1963 New York Film Critics Circle Awards|New York Film Critics Circle Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
| {{won}}
| align="center" rowspan="3"| 
|-
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| Tony Richardson
| {{won}}
|-
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| Albert Finney
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[24th Venice International Film Festival|Venice International Film Festival]]
| [[Golden Lion]]
| Tony Richardson
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"| 
|-
| [[Volpi Cup for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| Albert Finney
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Writers' Guild of Great Britain|Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards]]
| Best British Comedy Screenplay
| John Osborne
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://writersguild.org.uk/writers-guild-awards-1963/ |title=Writers' Guild Awards 1963 |publisher=[[Writers' Guild of Great Britain]] |access-date=October 28, 2024}}</ref>
|}

[[Ilya Lopert]] accepted the [[Academy Award for Best Picture]] on behalf of the producers. After his death, the Oscar was given by his estate to [[Albert Finney]].

''Tom Jones'' is the only film in [[List of Academy Award records|the history of the Academy Awards]] in which three actresses were nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress]]. [[Margaret Rutherford]] won the category for her role in ''[[The V.I.P.s (film)|The V.I.P.s]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tom_jones/|title=Tom Jones|publisher=Rotten Tomatoes}}</ref>

The film's five acting nominations and no wins matched the record set for nominations by ''[[Peyton Place (film)|Peyton Place]]'' in [[30th Academy Awards|1957]]. It was the last film to match this record.

==See also==
* [[BFI Top 100 British films]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5427-tom-jones-tomorrow-do-thy-worst "Tom Jones: Tomorrow Do Thy Worst"], essay by Neil Sinyard at the [[Criterion Collection]]

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