Dir. Tony Richardson
Starring Albert Finney, Hugh Griffith, Susannah York, Edith Evans and David Warner
Screenplay by John Osborne, based on Henry Fielding’s novel of the same name
In the history of the academy awards, Tom Jones as Best Picture winner seems a major anomaly because it might be the most subversive of Best Pictures ever – bearing in mind that subversion and the Academy Awards are relative things. Nevertheless, given some of its darker and lustier themes, and their presentation in a jaunty, shiny package, it’s still a subversive film, if not as much as it otherwise could have been. Continue reading
(1962)
