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.
Ann-Margret
Peter Firth
Michael Hordern
Beryl Reid
Jim Dale
Natalie Ogle
Peter Bull
Kenneth Cranham
Karen Dotrice
James Villiers
Penelope Wilton
Bernard Bresslaw
Norman Rossington
Patsy Rowlands
Murray Melvin
Ronald Pickup
Peggy Ashcroft
Pauline Jameson
Timothy West
Wendy Craig
Vanessa Millard
John Gielgud
Hugh Griffith
Dan Meaden
Gerald Cross
Jenny Runacre
Patrick Durkin
Jonathan Cecil
Vernon Dobtcheff
Steven Berkoff
Gawn Grainger
Chris Bryant
Helen Fraser
Willoughby Goddard
Richard Goolden
Del Henney
Nigel Humphreys
Tim Pigott-Smith
Brian Glover