Tom Jones (1963) Repost

Cast Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, Dame Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood …

The story begins with a silent-movie sequence during which the good Squire Allworthy returns home after a lengthy stay in London and discovers a baby in his bed. Thinking that his barber, Mr. Partridge, and one of his servants, Jenny Jones, have "birthed" the infant out of lust, the squire banishes them and chooses to raise little Tom Jones as if he were his own son. Tom (Albert Finney) grows up to be a lively young man whose good looks and kind heart make him very popular with the opposite sex. However, he truly loves only one woman, the gentle Sophie Western (Susannah York), who returns his passion. Sadly, Tom is stigmatized as a bastard and cannot wed a young lady of her high station. Sophie, too, must hide her feelings while her aunt (Edith Evans) and her father, Squire Western (Hugh Griffith) try to coerce her to marry a more suitable man - a man whom she hates.

L'Angleterre du XVIIIe siècle. Tom Jones, abandonné à sa naissance, a été recueilli par un seigneur campagnard. Vingt ans plus tard, le jeune homme ne pense qu'aux femmes et les séduit toutes malgrè l'amour qu'il porte à Sophie Western, sa voisine…