Joyce Redman as Mrs. Waters. Tom Jones is an enthusiastic movie, and its enthusiasm is infectious. Sour souls who claim it is overrated have been shouted down. The success of the film is ...

In eighteenth-century England, Tom, the bastard son of one of Squire Allworthy's servants Jenny Jones and the local barber Partridge, is raised by virtuous Allworthy as his own son, after he sent ...