Far from the Madding Crowd
by John Schlesinger
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Actor: Alan Bates, Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Prunella Ransome, Terence StampDirector: John Schlesinger
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.20:1
Running Time: 171 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-01-27
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Movie Review: One of the Greatest Movies
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a masterpiece of a movie. Of course, it stars some of Britain's greatest actors, i.e., Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Peter Finch and Terrence Stamp. The scenery is breathtaking and the characters are well developed and interesting. It is a beautiful story by Thomas Hardy and takes the viewer through romance, tragedy, sadness and joy. Well worth the almost three hours of viewing.
Summary of Far from the Madding Crowd
Best Picture/Best Actor - National Board of Review Awards! JULIE CHRISTIE rejoins the writer and director of her starmaking Darling on Thomas Hardy's tale of a rebellious country girl for whose affection soldier TERENCE STAMP, landowner PETER FINCH and sheep farmer ALAN BATES becomes rivals.John Schlesinger's solid adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel sees three rival suitors vying for the affections of the beautiful Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie decked out in a variety of bonnets and frilly dresses), who has just inherited a farm. The men in her life are stout, whiskered yeoman Gabriel Oak (Alan Bates), an impoverished local farmer; neurotic, repressed squire William Boldwood (Peter Finch); and handsome rascal Sgt. Troy (Terence Stamp), who breaks women's hearts for a hobby.
Thanks to cameraman Nicolas Roeg and production designer Richard MacDonald (who also worked for Joseph Losey), 19th-century Dorset looks as pretty and as picturesque as a John Constable reproduction on top of a cookie tin. Not that Schlesinger or screenwriter Frederic Raphael underplays the duress of rural life. We see the hardship of the farm workers' lives as the seasons turn. The film opens with a spectacular sequence in which Gabriel Oak's dog drives his flock of sheep over a cliff, thereby forcing him into penury. Whether hunger or heartbreak, every character here suffers. Bathsheba (like the model Christie plays in Darling) is a free spirit in a society in which women's rights are severely restricted. --Geoffrey Macnab
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