TY - BOOK AU - Hardy,Thomas ED - Vic Films, ltd., London. [from old catalog] ED - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. TI - Far from the madding crowd PY - 1975/// CY - LONDON PB - MACMILLAN N1 - Panavision; Based on Thomas Hardy's novel of the same title; CREDITS: Producer, Joseph Janni; director, John Schlesinger; screenplay, Frederic Raphael; music, Richard Rodney Bennett; director of photography, Nicolas Roeg; editor, Malcolm Cooke. CAST: Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, peter Finch, Alan Bates, Fiona Walker; SUMMARY: A drama about life in rural England in the late 1800's as disclosed in the love affairs of a frivolous country landowner and the three totally dissimilar men whose lives are affected by her charms ER -