Description
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.
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Release Date1977
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Runtime1 hr 39 min
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Languageen
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Rating4.818 (11)
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Genres
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DirectorTony Richardson
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CastAnn-MargretPeter FirthMichael HordernBeryl ReidJim DaleNatalie OglePeter BullKenneth CranhamKaren DotriceJames VilliersPenelope WiltonBernard BresslawNorman RossingtonPatsy RowlandsMurray MelvinRonald PickupPeggy AshcroftPauline JamesonTimothy WestWendy CraigVanessa MillardJohn GielgudHugh GriffithDan MeadenGerald CrossJenny RunacrePatrick DurkinJonathan CecilVernon DobtcheffSteven BerkoffGawn GraingerChris BryantHelen FraserWilloughby GoddardRichard GooldenDel HenneyNigel HumphreysTim Pigott-SmithBrian GloverStefan GatesShannon SkinnerGeorge RaistrickDeclan MulhollandSandra DorneKen MasonTimothy BatesonJanet WebbMaggie WrightMichael BalfourRobert AshbyKurt ChristianGurdial SiraNeil FitzwiliamKen ParryHenry WoolfAlfred LynchBernard BresslawCarol Drinkwater
