汤姆琼斯（阿尔伯特·芬尼 Albert Finney 饰）本为私生子，后被一绅士收养，他天性热情奔放，模样又生得风流俊朗，庄园主的女儿索菲亚（苏珊娜·约克 Susannah York 饰）同他坠入情网，后遭到表弟比菲尔（大卫·沃纳 David Warner 饰）的插足干涉，一番纠葛之后，声名狼藉的汤

During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They mus