Joseph Andrews (1977)
Joseph Andrews is a book-based movie adapted from "Joseph Andrews" by Henry Fielding. This Romance/Comedy film is a direct adaptation, and its release date is March 9, 1977.
The Source Material
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Overview
It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy. Here emulation most effectually operates upon us, a…
About The Movie
Description
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.
Details
- Title
- Joseph Andrews
- Original Title
- Joseph Andrews
- Original Language
- EN
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy
- US Theatrical
- March 9, 1977 · Rated R