Joseph Andrews

Joseph Andrews

99 mins | Comedy, Romance | March 9, 1977

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.

Joseph Andrews

99 mins | Comedy, Romance | March 9, 1977

Joseph Andrews
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.
IMDb rating 5.6
Producers Paramount, Woodfall Film Productions
Original title Joseph Andrews
Directors Andrew Grieve, Tony Richardson
Writers Allan Scott, Henry Fielding, Tony Richardson, Chris Bryant

Cast

Ann-Margret

as Lady Booby alias "Belle"

Peter Firth

as Joseph Andrews

Michael Hordern

as Parson Adams

Beryl Reid

as Mrs. Slipslop

Jim Dale

as The pedlar

Natalie Ogle

as Fanny Ogle

Peter Bull

as Sir Thomas Booby

Kenneth Cranham

as The Wicked Squire

Karen Dotrice

as Pamela

James Villiers

as Mr. Booby

Penelope Wilton

as Mrs. Wilton

Bernard Bresslaw

as Parson Trulliber

Norman Rossington

as Gaffer Andrews

Patsy Rowlands

as Gammer Andrews

Murray Melvin

as Beau Didapper

Ronald Pickup

as Mr. Wilson

Peggy Ashcroft

as Lady Tattle

Pauline Jameson

as Lady Tittle

Timothy West

as Mr. Tow-Wouse

Wendy Craig

as Mrs. Tow-Wouse

Vanessa Millard

as Betty

John Gielgud

as The Doctor

Hugh Griffith

as Squire Western

Dan Meaden

as Coach Driver

Gerald Cross

as Lawyer in Coach

Jenny Runacre

as The Gypsy

Patrick Durkin

as Trotter

Jonathan Cecil

as Fop One

Vernon Dobtcheff

as Fop Two

Steven Berkoff

as Greasy Fellow

Gawn Grainger

as Scout

Chris Bryant

as Wicked Squire's Steward

Helen Fraser

as Mrs. Adams

Willoughby Goddard

as Fourposter Innkeeper

Richard Goolden

as Squire Western's Clerk

Del Henney

as Didapper's Valet

Nigel Humphreys

as Birdcatcher

Tim Pigott-Smith

as Cornet

Brian Glover

as Gaoler