Archness dished up in gargantuan portions. Tony Richardson's and John Osborne's overblown pastiche reduces Fielding's novel to chaotic, ill-considered monkeyshines. Certainly it has some redeeming features, for example Diane Cilento's smudged country wench. But generally its tendency to throw in anything, especially a "cinematic" magic trick, to spice things up, produces only muck. (The 1989 re-release version has reportedly had seven minutes cut out to "tighten" the pacing, though the same result could have been had with simply an increase in the "humorous" fast-motion.) Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith. (1963) — Duncan Shepherd
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