Take just the right amount of sex, in the best taste of course, add in the wittiest dialogue, laugh-out-loud scenes, the perfect tone of bawdiness, the speed of slapstick comedy, the great actor Albert Finney, and combine all this with Henry Fielding’s 18th Century novel Tom Jones and you have the irresistible 1963 movie adaptation of Fielding’s comic classic. Tom is a foundling (read bastard) whom women can’t resist. His irresistibleness gets him into trouble, in the best taste of course, and he’s forced to go on the road for rollicking adventures in the gorgeous British countryside where he indulges in the most famous and libidinous eating scene in the history of cinema. In the spirit of the Mostly British Film Festival, this may be the most British film ever made. UK 1963 (135 minutes)
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