![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Those expecting a serious character piece similar to Barry Lyndon might be disappointed, because everything in Tom Jones is pretty much played for laughs. Tom proceeds to spend the majority of the film schmoozing his way around London, getting into affairs, and even getting caught up in a comical scheme where he’s nearly robbed of his entire fortune. In the title role of the older Jones is t he great Albert Finney, who grows into a successful young bachelor with a romantic appetite that is nearly unquenchable. The titular character is born out of a presumed affair between two staffers at a lavish estate, but it's Squire Allworthy ( George Devine) who takes on the responsibility of raising the young boy as his own, and teaching him the etiquette needed to succeed in the socially contentious bureaucratic lifestyle. Directed by the legendary Tony Richardson, Tom Jones is an 18th-century period piece set in the upper class of Somerset, Gloucestershire and London. ![]()
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