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Joseph Andrews (1977)

Joseph Andrews (1977)

Comedy Romance

A lady's secrets. A servant's lust. A lover's betrayal.

Release Date: 1977, March 9
Directors: Tony Richardson
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Woodfall Film Productions, Paramount Pictures
Cast: Timothy Bateson, Hugh Griffith, Patrick Durkin, Ronald Pickup, Penelope Wilton, Tim Pigott-Smith, Kenneth Cranham, Steven Berkoff, Carol Drinkwater, Michael Balfour, Vernon Dobtcheff, Peter Firth

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book 18th century bawdy