Tom Jones

The story

Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?

What critics & audiences say

Tomatometer83%Fresh#82 of 98 winners

IMDb6.316K votes#95 of 98 winners

Metacritic77/ 100#69 of 93 winners

TMDB5.9/ 10

Fun facts

1. Albert Finney's Tom Jones breaks the fourth wall, at one point noticing the camera and covering the lens with his hat.Wikipedia · Development
2. Made on a budget of $1 million, Tom Jones earned over $17 million in US and Canadian theater rentals, and Albert Finney received 10% of the film's earnings.Wikipedia · Box office
3. Despite its success, director Tony Richardson called the film 'incomplete and botched' and wrote that whenever someone gushed about it, he would 'cringe a little inside.'Wikipedia · Development
4. Tom Jones is the only film in Oscar history to have three actresses nominated for Best Supporting Actress, and none of them won.Wikipedia · Accolades
5. After producer Ilya Lopert, who accepted the Best Picture Oscar, died, his estate gave the statuette to Albert Finney.Wikipedia · Accolades
6. The film got made in color only because the original British production company, Bryanston Films, went bankrupt while hesitating over it, and United Artists stepped in.Wikipedia · Development
7. The opening sequence plays like a silent film, with intertitles and brisk action, and an unseen narrator voiced by Micheál Mac Liammóir comments mock-seriously throughout.Wikipedia · Development
8. Its five acting nominations without a single win matched the record set by Peyton Place, and Tom Jones was the last film to match it.Wikipedia · Accolades
9. Time magazine called it 'a way-out, walleyed, wonderful exercise in cinema' and 'a social satire written in blood with a broadaxe.'Wikipedia · Critical reception
10. Tom Jones marked the film debut of David Warner, and was shot on location in places including Cerne Abbas and Castle Street in Bridgwater, Somerset.Wikipedia · Filming