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  • A Taste Of Honey
  • A Taste Of Honey review by from London, England
    Rated - 5 stars Outstanding Dramedy 7 June 2004
    ... of the three leads. This is one of the first films to be shot on location and Tony Richardson uses the Salford location beautifully. If excellent drama/comedy and beautiful...  
  • The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
  • Rated - 5 stars In a class of its own 13 June 2004
    ... With an intense performance by Tom Courtenay as Smith and gritty direction by Tony Richardson, ‘the Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’ has survived the test of time and...  
  • The Border
  • The Border review by Savage from London, England
    Rated - 3 stars Solidly entertaining bunch of clichés 22 June 2008
    ...chés, since there's much to commend everything else about it. Veteran director Tony Richardson creates a cracking Tex-Mex border atmosphere, and the formidably talented cast ...  

Tony Richardson - filmography


  • Blue Sky on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Jessica Lange,  Tommy Lee Jones,  Powers Boothe
    Director: Tony Richardson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Jessica Lange stars as army wife Carly Marshall in Tony Richardson's last film, set in the early 1960s. Carly, a very beautiful woman, spices up the drabness of military life with the kind of promiscuity and exhibitionist behavior that has kept her husband, Hank (Tommy Lee Jones), from getting the ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 318 members
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  • The Hotel New Hampshire on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Jodie Foster,  Beau Bridges,  Nastassja Kinski
    Director: Tony Richardson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    British director Tony Richardson takes on John Irving's picaresque black comedy about an eccentric and unusually peripatetic family in a film starring Rob Lowe as John Berry, the family's oldest son. John's father, Win (Beau Bridges), is obsessed with hotels, so he buys a run-down seminary in New ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 825 members
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  • Joseph Andrews on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Michael Hordern,  Ann-Margret,  Jim Dale
    Director: Tony Richardson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Henry Fielding's rollicking, bawdy tale is brought to lusty life on screen by Tony Richardson. Employed as a servant in the household of Sir Thomas Booby (Peter Bull), the pure-hearted Joseph (Peter Firth) is in love with Fanny Goodwill (Natalie Ogle), one of the housemaids. But Joseph is plagued ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 11 members
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  • The Loved One (1965)
    Starring: Robert Morse,  Rod Steiger,  Jonathan Winters
    Director: Tony Richardson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Outrageous black comedy, promoted as "the motion picture with something to offend everyone!," stars Robert Morse as a British poet who visits California and, after his uncle's death, is introduced to the seamier side of the funeral industry.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 55% from 11 members
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  • Tom Jones (1963)
    Starring: Albert Finney,  Susannah York,  Diane Cilento
    Director: Tony Richardson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Tony Richardson's rousing adaptation of Fielding's classic comic novel, a sharp change of pace for a director of choleric contemporary fare, stars Albert Finney as the eponymous swordsman. A foundling whose mother is thought to be a housemaid (Joyce Redman), he's raised by her employer, the aptly ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,492 member
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  • The Border on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Elpidia Carrillo,  Harvey Keitel,  Jack Nicholson
    Director: Tony Richardson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Possibly the closest that Jack Nicholson has ever come to playing an old-fashioned hero was the role of Charlie Smith, in a film whose writers had worked on 'The Wild Bunch' and 'The Deer Hunter'. A U.S. border patrol guard who's disenchanted with his work, Charlie, accedes to his wife, Marcy's, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 232 members
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  • Free Cinema (3 discs) on DVD (1956)
    Director: Karel Reisz,  Tony Richardson,  Lorenza Mazzetti
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    A collection of Free Cinema films containing 16 short films on three discs. The term Free Cinema was coined by critic and filmmaker Lindsay Anderson, when he, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson and Lorenza Mazzetti screened a programme of their short films at the National Film Theatre on 5 February ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 147 members
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Tony Richardson facts

5 most recent films

Blue Sky - 2.5 stars
The Hotel New Hampshire - 3.0 stars
Joseph Andrews - 2.5 stars
Mahogany - 3.5 stars
A Delicate Balance - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

A Taste Of Honey - 3.5 stars
Free Cinema - 3.5 stars
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner - 3.5 stars
Look Back In Anger - 3.5 stars
Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Joseph Andrews - 2.5 stars
Mademoiselle - 2.5 stars
The Loved One - 2.5 stars
John Osborne And The Gift Of Friendship - 3.0 stars
Mahogany - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Tom Courtenay - 2 times - show films
John Thaw - 2 times - show films
James Bolam - 2 times - show films
Michael Redgrave - 2 times - show films
Joe Robinson - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Karel Reisz - 1 times - show films
Lorenza Mazzetti - 1 times - show films
Berry Gordy - 1 times - show films
Tony Palmer - 1 times - show films