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Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
Wealthy English Victorian woman farm owner pays employees in coins
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The 1967 film "Far from the Madding Crowd" is based on the 1874 novel Far from the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy. The story is set in a farming community in Victorian England around 1870.
Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie) inherits a large farm and decides to run it herself.
She hires former suitor Gabriel Oak (Alan Bates) as her assistant.
Bathsheba meets a soldier, Frank Troy (Terence Stamp), and marries him. He loses some of her money
and then disappears. His clothes and some coins are found on a cliff.
1. Frank Troy's coins on the ground
Frank has disappeared and his clothes and coins found on a cliff by the ocean imply that he has
moved to a place where money means nothing.
Gabriel Oak still works for Bathsheba and is now entrusted with the money which is kept in a
wooden chest. He assists her in paying her employees in coin.
2. Bathsheba and Gabriel await their employees
The first men are in line.
3. Bathsheba pours out a pouch of change
The coins look like standard prop coins.
4. Bathsheba counts the money
Bathsheba receives a marriage proposal from wealthy farmer William Boldwood (Peter Finch).
Frank Troy shows up at the wedding and William kills him. William is later arrested.
Bathsheba then marries Gabriel.
Cast, Directors, Writers:
Julie Christie as Bathsheba Everdene
Alan Bates as Gabriel Oak
Terence Stamp as Frank Troy
Peter Finch as William Boldwood
Director: John Schlesinger
Writers: Frederic Raphael
Based on the 1874 novel Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Alan Bates as Gabriel Oak
Terence Stamp as Frank Troy
Peter Finch as William Boldwood
Writers: Frederic Raphael
Based on the 1874 novel Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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