Tom Jones - Between the bed and the gallows

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Movie
German title Tom Jones - Between the bed and the gallows
Original title Tom Jones
Country of production UK
original language English
Publishing year 1963
length 128 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Tony Richardson
script John Osborne
production Michael Holden
Oscar Lewenstein
Tony Richardson
Michael Balcon
music John Addison
camera Walter Lassally
cut Antony Gibbs
occupation
synchronization

Tom Jones is an Oscar- winning British comedy film from 1963 .

It is an adaptation of Henry Fielding's novel Tom Jones: The Story of a foundling (Engl. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ) of 1749. The film was one of the most successful and acclaimed by critics comedies of its time. Directed by Tony Richardson and written by playwright John Osborne . The film stands out because of its unusual comic design: the opening sequence is presented in the style of a silent film , and the characters often break through the fourth wall by looking directly into the camera and addressing the audience.

action

The story begins with a silent film sequence in which the good squire Allworthy returns home after a very long stay in London and finds a baby in his bed. Believing that his hairdresser, Mr. Partridge, and his maid Jenny Jones conceived the child in a state of lust , he banishes them and decides to raise little Tom Jones like his own son.

Tom grows up and becomes a brisk young man whose good looks and friendly heart make him very popular with the opposite sex. Nevertheless, he only really loves one woman, namely the gentle Sophie Western, who reciprocates his passion. However, Tom is branded as a bastard and cannot marry a woman of her class . Sophie too has to keep her love a secret, while her aunt and her father, Landlord Western, want to force her to marry a man of her standing - a man she hates.

This young man is Blifil, the son of Bridget, the landlord's widowed sister. Blifil is vicious, a hypocrite who has nothing of Tom's warmth, honesty or joie de vivre in him. When Bridget dies unexpectedly, Blifil intercepts a letter that his mother had intended only for her brother's eyes. What this letter contains will not be revealed until the end of the film; however, after his mother's funeral, Blifil and his tutors, Mr. Thwackum and Mr. Square, team up to convince Allworthy that Tom is a villain. Allworthy pays Tom a small inheritance and sadly sends him into the world to seek his fortune.

On his odyssey , Tom is knocked unconscious while defending the good name of his beloved Sophie and robbed of his legacy. He also flees from a jealous Irishman who falsely accuses him of having an affair with his wife, fighting swords, meets his alleged father and mother, and saves a certain Mrs. Waters from an evil officer.

Meanwhile, shortly after Tom's banishment, Sophie runs away from home to escape the supervision of the hated Blifil. After narrowly missing each other at the Upton Inn, Tom and Sophie arrive in London separately. There Lady Bellaston, a distinguished lady over 40, becomes aware of Tom. She is rich, beautiful, and ruthless. Tom ends up in the dungeon at Tyburn , where two representatives of Blifil accuse him of robbery and attempted murder and a rioted crowd awaits his execution. Western saves him at the last minute and hands him over to Allworthy. The audience finally learns the content of the mysterious letter: Tom is not Jenny Jones' child, but Bridget's real son and Allworthy's nephew. Blifil has been hiding this since he knew about it and tried to destroy his half-brother, but is now out of favor and is hoped to be disinherited. Tom now has permission to free Sophie and everything will end well.

Reviews

"The playwright John Osborne reworked Fielding's classic picaresque novel into a funny, turbulent and sensual historical spectacle which, under the direction of" Free Cinema "pioneer Tony Richardson, also becomes an intelligently entertaining parody of the mechanisms of adventure film."

- Lexicon of international film

synchronization

The German dubbing was created in 1964 at Ultra Film Synchron.

role actor Voice actor
Tom Jones Albert Finney Harald Leipnitz
Sophie Western Susannah York Uta Hallant
Squire Western Hugh Griffith Klaus W. Krause
Miss Western Edith Evans Agnes Windeck
Squire Allworthy George Devine Klaus Miedel
Blifil David Warner Horst Gentzen
Lord Fellamar David Tomlinson Friedrich Schoenfelder
Mr. Fitzpatrick George A. Cooper Martin Hirthe
Partridge Jack MacGowran Walter Bluhm

Awards

Academy Awards 1964

Awards

Nominations

Tom Jones is the only film in the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in which three British supporting actresses have been nominated for an Oscar.

British Academy Film Award 1964

Awards

Nominations

Golden Globe Award 1964

Awards

Nominations

  • Best Actor - Comedy / Musical (Albert Finney)
  • Best Director (Tony Richardson)
  • Best Supporting Actor (Hugh Griffith)
  • Best Supporting Actress (Joan Greenwood)

Other awards

New York Film Critics Circle Awards , USA

Laurel Award

  • Best Comedy Award

Venice International Film Festival , Italy

  • Coppa Volpi : Best Actor (Albert Finney)
  • Golden Lion: Tony Richardson (nominated)

Writers' Guild of Great Britain

  • Best British Screenplay - Comedy (John Osborne)

Grammy Awards

  • Best Original Score (John Addison)

The British Film Institute chose Tom Jones in 1999 to rank 51 of the best British films of the 20th century .

DVD release

  • Tom Jones . MGM Home Entertainment 2003

Soundtrack

  • John Addison : Tom Jones. Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack . On: Tom Jones & Irma La Douce. Music from the Original Soundtracks . MCA Records, Universal City 1986, sound carrier no. MCAD-6178 - Original recording of the film music (excerpts), recorded under the direction of the composer (CD)
  • John Addison : Tom Jones. Original motion picture sound track . United Artists Records, New York 1963, sound carrier no. UAS 5113 - Original recording of the film music recorded under the direction of the composer (LP)

literature

  • John Osborne : Tom Jones. Screenplay (Original Title: Tom Jones ). Edition film review 65.3. German by Klaus Hellwig and Peter H. Schröder . Verlag Filmkritik, Frankfurt am Main 1965, 134 pp.
  • Henry Fielding : Tom Jones. The history of a foundling (Original title: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ). German by Horst Höckendorf . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2007, 1228 pages, ISBN 978-3-458-34939-6 or ISBN 3-458-34939-1
  • Hans-Jürgen Kubiak: The Oscar Films. The best films from 1927/28 to 2004. The best non-English language films from 1947 to 2004. The best animated films from 2001 to 2004 . Schüren, Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-89472-386-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New York Times Review of Tom Jones ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / movies2.nytimes.com
  2. ↑ http://www.synchrondatenbank.de/movie.php?id=15795 Tom Jones - Between bed and gallows , entry in Arne Kaul's synchronous database
  3. ↑ Tom Jones - Between bed and gallows in the German synchronous file ; Retrieved August 15, 2009