Far from the Madding Crowd - UK (1967), directed by John Schlesinger, from a screenplay by Frederic Raphael, based on the novel by Thomas Hardy. In Victorian Wessex, a headstrong girl causes unhappiness and tragedy for the three men who want her. With Julie Christie as Bathsheba Everdene, Terence Stamp as the soldier Sergeant Troy, Peter Finch as the landowner William Boldwood, and Alan Bates as the shepherd Gabriel Oak. The cinematographer was Nicolas Roeg.