Far from the Madding Crowd (1967 film) film performed well at the box office in the UK but was a commercial failure in the US. "Far from the Madding Crowd" received mixed to positive reviews from critics, as the film holds a 72% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 25 reviews. Far from the Madding Crowd (1967 film) Far from the Madding Crowd is a 1967 British epic drama film adapted from Thomas Hardy's book of the same name. The film, starring Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Terence Stamp and Peter Finch, and directed by John Schlesinger, was Schlesinger's fourth film (and his third collaboration with Christie). It
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,