Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) on Netflix
NR19672h 46mDramaHistoryRomance
Bathsheba Everdene inherits her uncle's farm and runs it herself, hiring Gabriel Oak as shepherd. A valentine sent on impulse brings a proposal from William Boldwood. She meets Frank Troy.
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Set in the rural West Country of Victorian England, the story follows Bathsheba Everdene, a headstrong woman who inherits her uncle's farm and chooses to run it herself, to the disapproval of the local farming community. Among those she employs is Gabriel Oak, a former neighbor who once hoped to marry her but was turned down for lack of wealth, and who lost his own flock when a dog drove his sheep over a cliff. On an impulse Bathsheba posts a valentine to William Boldwood, a middle-aged gentleman farmer nearby, and he falls in love with her and proposes; she promises to consider it. Then she meets Frank Troy, a sergeant in a red uniform, and becomes enamored of him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
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- While making the film, John Schlesinger had problems with Terence Stamp, according to Jim Clark: the director was not keen on Stamp's acting, their relationship was poor, and Schlesinger worried he could not get the performance he wanted out of him.
- The Kinks' "Waterloo Sunset" is not used in the film but was said to allude to its stars, Terence Stamp and Julie Christie, known as "Terry and Julie"; songwriter Ray Davies denied this, saying the characters came from his elder sisters, who grew up during the Second World War.
- Far from the Madding Crowd was the first Panavision 70 mm film to be shown on the 75 ft screen of the newly built Odeon Marble Arch in London, which had opened in February of that year.
