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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.

1977 |1h 39m |  Romance, Comedy

Cast

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Ann-Margret

Lady Booby alias "Belle"

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Peter Firth

Joseph Andrews

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Michael Hordern

Parson Adams

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Beryl Reid

Mrs. Slipslop

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Jim Dale

The pedlar

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Peter Bull

Sir Thomas Booby

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Kenneth Cranham

The Wicked Squire

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Karen Dotrice

Pamela

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James Villiers

Mr. Booby

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Penelope Wilton

Mrs. Wilton

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Bernard Bresslaw

Parson Trulliber

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Norman Rossington

Gaffer Andrews

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Patsy Rowlands

Gammer Andrews

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Murray Melvin

Beau Didapper

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Ronald Pickup

Mr. Wilson

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Peggy Ashcroft

Lady Tattle

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Pauline Jameson

Lady Tittle

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Timothy West

Mr. Tow-Wouse

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Wendy Craig

Mrs. Tow-Wouse

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John Gielgud

The Doctor

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Hugh Griffith

Squire Western

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Jenny Runacre

The Gypsy

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Jonathan Cecil

Fop One

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Vernon Dobtcheff

Fop Two

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Steven Berkoff

Greasy Fellow

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Gawn Grainger

Scout

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Helen Fraser

Mrs. Adams

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Willoughby Goddard

Fourposter Innkeeper

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Del Henney

Didapper's Valet

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Tim Pigott-Smith

Cornet

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Brian Glover

Gaoler

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Status

Released

Language

English

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