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2 videodiscs (128 min.; 121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1963
Theatrical version (128 min.) -- Director's cut (121 min.)
Follows the bawdy activities of Tom Jones, a foundling of mysterious origin, adopted by a squire in eighteenth-century England
Based on the novel "The history of Tom Jones" by Henry Fielding
Wide screen 1.66:1
Essay by film scholar Neil Sinyard in container
New 4K digital restorations of the original theatrical version of the film and the 1989 director's cut
Features on director's cut [disc 1]: new program on the film's cinematography featuring Lassally; new interview with film scholar Duncan Petrie on the movie's impact on British cinema; new interview with the editor of the director's cut, Robert Lambert. -- features on theatrical cut [disc 2]: excerpt from a 1982 episode of The Dick Cavett show featuring actor Albert Finney; new interview with actor Vanessa Redgrave on her former husband, director Tony Richardson; illustrated archival audio interview with composer John Addison on his Oscar-winning score for the film
Music, John Addison ; director of photography, Walter Lassally ; editor, Anthony Gibbs
Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood, Diane Cilento, George Devine
MPAA rating: Not rated
Blu-ray; region A; uncompressed monaural soundtrack (theatrical version) and LPCM 2.0 (director's cut); requires Blu-ray player
In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)