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.


A lady's secrets. A servant's lust. A lover's betrayal.
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Ann-Margret
Lady Booby alias "Belle"

Peter Firth
Joseph Andrews

Michael Hordern
Parson Adams

Beryl Reid
Mrs. Slipslop

Jim Dale
The pedlar
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Natalie Ogle
Fanny Ogle

Peter Bull
Sir Thomas Booby

Kenneth Cranham
The Wicked Squire

Karen Dotrice
Pamela