Joseph Andrews

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

N/A

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