Far from the Madding Crowd (1967 film) fell off a steep cliff. Ignoring Gabriel's love, Bathsheba impulsively sends a valentine to William Boldwood (Peter Finch), a nearby gentleman farmer. When he misinterprets her capriciousness and proposes to her, Bathsheba promises to consider his offer. But she becomes enamoured of Frank Troy (Terence Stamp), a dashing cavalry sergeant. Troy was supposed to marry young Fanny Robin (Prunella Ransome), a maidservant pregnant with his child, but she went to the wrong church on their wedding day, and Troy was then posted out of town. Bathsheba marries him after his return. Troy gambles away most of Bathsheba's money and creates
Roy Forge Smith film and television, at the BBC. Smith a set designer for the production of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". His numerous British and American film credits as a production designer included work on "Far from the Madding Crowd" (1967), "Jabberwocky" (1977), "Mrs. Soffel" (1984), "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" (1989), (1993), (1995), and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film trilogy during the early 1990s. During the 1990s Smith continued to work on feature films such as Richard's Treehouse, Honey I Shrunk the Kids and Katie turning to television in around 2000 designing sets in Ireland for a Hallmark film,