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...JONES. The funniest movie in many a year. Henry Fielding's bawdy classic about vice in 18th century England has been pinched and patted into shape by Director Tony Richardson, with able assistance from Stars Albert Finney and Hugh Griffith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 27, 1963 | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

...have imbued it with a gritty freshness all their own. An Italian neighborhood springs to life in one vivid scene set against the background of a concrete piazza, where the men play bocce while the women pull food out of brown paper bags. Some of the film's funniest moments involve Tom Bosley as Angie's feverish, fumbling suitor. One look from her and he becomes accident-prone, breaking dishes, bumping into furniture, incurring minor fractures, yet somehow suggesting that most of the real hurt lies deep inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New York, New York | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

...JONES. The funniest movie in many a year. Fielding's bawdy classic about vice in 18th century England has been pinched and patted into shape by Director Tony Richardson, with able assistance from stars Albert Finney and Hugh Griffith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 20, 1963 | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

...Whoever wrote that story on the goings on at Puerto Vallarta [Nov. 8] -I love him! That's the funniest story I've ever read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 22, 1963 | 11/22/1963 | See Source »

...also a social satire written in blood with a broadaxe. It is bawdy as the British were bawdy when a wench had to wear five petticoats to barricade her virtue. It is as beautiful in Eastman Color as England is in spring. And it is one of the funniest farces anybody anywhere has splattered on a screen since Hollywood lost the recipe for custard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: John Bull in His Barnyard | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

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