Starring: Albert Finney, George Devine, Susannah York
Director: Tony Richardson
Screenplay: John Osborne
Genre: British period comedy 1963
Running Time 128 mins
The 1963 film Tom Jones is a lively, bawdy period comedy adapted from Henry Fielding's classic 1749 novel The History of Tom Jones. A Foundling. Directed by Tony Richardson, the Oscar-winning movie follows the misadventures, romantic escapades, and eventual triumph of an amiable, illegitimate foundling in 18th-century England.