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
as Lady Booby alias "Belle"
Peter Firth
as Joseph Andrews
Michael Hordern
as Parson Adams
Beryl Reid
as Mrs. Slipslop
Jim Dale
as The pedlar
Natalie Ogle
as Fanny Ogle
Peter Bull
as Sir Thomas Booby
Kenneth Cranham
as The Wicked Squire
Karen Dotrice
as Pamela
James Villiers
as Mr. Booby
Penelope Wilton
as Mrs. Wilton
Bernard Bresslaw
as Parson Trulliber
