Far from the Madding Crowd 1967

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Thomas Hardy was not the most dynamic novelist in English literature, but this sluggish 1967 film still does him a serious disservice. Read more

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: Pictorially excessive but dramatically barren. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Alan Bates, in a change of pace, is the loyal shepherd. Terence Stamp is a suitably vile Sgt. Troy, and Peter Finch makes Boldwood strong and honorable in his love for Bathsheba. Read more

TIME Magazine: [Schlesinger] displays the best sense of Victorian time and place since David Lean in Great Expectations. Read more

Tom Huddleston, Time Out: One of the most entrancing and elemental landscape films ever shot in these isles. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Christie has few real opportunities to branch out of her rather muted and pouty lead. Read more