Overview
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.
Cast
Ann-Margret
Lady Booby alias "Belle"
Peter Firth
Joseph Andrews
Michael Hordern
Parson Adams
Beryl Reid
Mrs. Slipslop
Jim Dale
The pedlar
Natalie Ogle
Fanny Ogle
Peter Bull
Sir Thomas Booby
Kenneth Cranham
The Wicked Squire
Karen Dotrice
Pamela
James Villiers
Mr. Booby
Penelope Wilton
Mrs. Wilton
Bernard Bresslaw
Parson Trulliber
Norman Rossington
Gaffer Andrews
Patsy Rowlands
Gammer Andrews
Murray Melvin
Beau Didapper
Ronald Pickup
Mr. Wilson
Peggy Ashcroft
Lady Tattle
Pauline Jameson
Lady Tittle
Timothy West
Mr. Tow-Wouse
Wendy Craig
Mrs. Tow-Wouse
Vanessa Millard
Betty
John Gielgud
The Doctor
Hugh Griffith
Squire Western
Dan Meaden
Coach Driver
Gerald Cross
Lawyer in Coach
Jenny Runacre
The Gypsy
Patrick Durkin
Trotter
Jonathan Cecil
Fop One
Vernon Dobtcheff
Fop Two
Steven Berkoff
Greasy Fellow
Gawn Grainger
Scout
Chris Bryant
Wicked Squire's Steward
Helen Fraser
Mrs. Adams
Willoughby Goddard
Fourposter Innkeeper
Richard Goolden
Squire Western's Clerk
Del Henney
Didapper's Valet
Nigel Humphreys
Birdcatcher
Tim Pigott-Smith
Cornet
Brian Glover
Gaoler
Stefan Gates
Young Joseph
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