Far From The Madding Crowd (DVD)

At the height of the swinging sixties when the idea was mooted to adapt Thomas Hardy's novel, Far From The Madding Crowd, for the big screen, two actors were probably pencilled-in without too much argument: Julie Christie and Terence Stamp. They were, after all, the darlings of the London scene at the time and it was surely unthinkable that one of them at least would not feature, especially as it was to be the most English of productions of an adaptation of the most English of novels. So when director John Schlesinger, script in hand and American money-men just a phone call away, led his merry band down to Dorset to bring Hardy's angst-ridden Wessex-tale to life, Terry ...  Read the complete review