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{{Infobox film
| name = Joseph Andrews
| image_size =
| image = Joseph Andrews FilmPoster.jpeg
| caption = Theatrical release poster, artwork by [[Ted CoConis]]
| director = [[Tony Richardson]]
| writer = [[Allan Scott (Scottish screenwriter)|Allan Scott]]
| screenplay = [[Chris Bryant (writer)|Chris Bryant]]
| based_on = {{based on|''[[Joseph Andrews]]''|[[Henry Fielding]]}}
| starring = [[Ann-Margret]] [[Peter Firth]] [[Michael Hordern]] [[Beryl Reid]] [[Jim Dale]]
| music = [[John Addison]]
| cinematography = [[David Watkin (cinematographer)|David Watkin]]
| editing = [[Thom Noble]]
| studio = [[Woodfall Film Productions]]
| distributor = [[United Artists]] (UK) [[Paramount Pictures]] (USA)
| released = April 1977
| runtime = 104 min.
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget = $3 million<ref>Richardson Gibes the Gentry Again in 'Joseph Andrews'
Champlin, Charles. Los Angeles Times 13 June 1976: p1.</ref>
| gross =
}}
'''''Joseph Andrews''''' is a 1977 British [[historical drama|period]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Tony Richardson]]. It is based on the 1742 novel ''[[Joseph Andrews]]'' by [[Henry Fielding]].

With its rollicking comic plot, period costume and setting, ribald adventures and a dashing young hero, the film was an obvious attempt to follow in the line of such films as ''[[Tom Jones (1963 film)|Tom Jones]]'' (1963), which was also directed by Tony Richardson.

[[Ann-Margret]] was nominated for a [[Golden Globe Award]] in 1978 for her performance in the film.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076234/awards|title=Joseph Andrews|access-date=2 June 2017}}</ref>

[[Vincent Canby]] of the ''New York Times'' explains the pretext of Henry Fielding's novel ''Joseph Andrews'': The book "originated as Fielding's answer to what he saw as the hypocritical pieties of [British novelist] Samuel Richardson's ''Pamela''. In ''Pamela'', which was published in 1740, Richardson told the inspiring tale of Pamela Andrews, a serving girl who tenaciously held onto her virginity until her employer, the rich Mr. Booby, came across with a marriage license. Several years later, Mr. Fielding turned this story wildly upside down in a novel about Pamela's brother, Joseph, a serving boy who is as innocent as his sister but not nearly as calculating, who must fight off all sorts of lewd advances and whose triumph is one of true virtue rather than greed."<ref name="auto">{{cite web |first=Vincent |last=Canby |title=Witty 'Joseph Andrews': Misadventures Galore |date=14 April 1978 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C00E6DA1531E632A25757C1A9629C946990D6CF}}</ref>

==Plot==
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 trip to fashionable Bath, where spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen. Sir Thomas really seeks relief for his sick foot, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. The all-but-grieving lady attempts to seduce Joseph, but on finding that his Christian virtue and true love are as immune to her passes as to those of the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires him. On his way back home on foot, Joseph falls prey to highwaymen who rob him of everything, even the clothes on his back. He is found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid; lusts are stirred at the inn, once more challenging his honour, until he is found by the good parson. Meanwhile, the lady consents to her cousin marrying below his station, on learning that his fiancée is Joseph's sister, Pamela. The parson prevents an attempted rape by a squire, and barely escapes a wicked gentleman's totally unjust justice after being accused of it - he comes to learn of a significant child theft by gypsies. Meanwhile, the parson, Joseph and Fanny again fall prey to the squire's utter debauchery...<ref>IMDB Joseph Andrews Plot Summary, KGF Vissers https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076234/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl</ref>

==Cast==
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* [[Ann-Margret]] as Lady Booby
* [[Peter Firth]] as Joseph Andrews
* [[Michael Hordern]] as Parson Adams
* [[Jim Dale]] as the Pedlar
* [[Beryl Reid]] as Mrs. Slipslop
* [[Natalie Ogle]] as Fanny Goodwill
* [[John Gielgud]] as the Doctor
* [[Hugh Griffith]] as Squire Western
* [[Peter Bull]] as Sir Thomas Booby
* [[Karen Dotrice]] as Pamela
* [[Peggy Ashcroft]] as Lady Tattle
* [[James Villiers]] as Mr. Booby
* [[Timothy West]] as Mr. Tow-Wouse
* [[Wendy Craig]] as Mrs. Tow-Wouse
* [[Ronald Pickup]] as Mr. Wilson
* [[Penelope Wilton]] as Mrs. Wilson
* [[Kenneth Cranham]] as The Wicked Squire
* [[Norman Rossington]] as Gaffer Andrews
* [[Patsy Rowlands]] as Gammer Andrews
* [[Vernon Dobtcheff]] as Fop
* [[Tim Pigott-Smith]] as Cornet
* [[Brian Glover]] as Gaoler
{{div col end}}

==Production==
Paramount announced the film in May 1976.<ref>MOVIE CALL SHEET: Elliott More Than a Sex Symbol
Murphy, Mary. Los Angeles Times 3 Mar 1976: f6.</ref>
===Filming===
The movie was filmed on location at [[Broughton Castle]], [[Banbury, Oxfordshire]], England, at the Roman Baths in [[Bath, Somerset]], England, and at the [[Royal Crescent]] in Bath, Somerset, England, [[the George Inn, Norton St Philip]] and in other locations in England.
===Music===
The ballads were sung by [[Jim Dale]] who plays the gypsy in the movie.

==Reception==
[[Vincent Canby]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' was impressed with the film: "''Joseph Andrews'' contains more great (and more greatly funny) character performances than any film I've seen in years. It's one of the few movies around now that truly lifts the spirits, not only because it is so good-humored but also because the humor is laced with so much wit and wisdom. ...(Ann-Margret) looks great and she is enchantingly funny, but so is almost everyone else in a cast so big I really don't know where to begin, since I'm sure to leave out someone important. It's one of those films in which even the smaller roles are as beautifully and as memorably done as the larger ones. ...The film is ... an almost perfect blending of beauty, romance and adventure, of landscapes too lovely to believe alternating with the kind of gritty period detail that prompts one character (Squire Thomas) to say of a street jam in the resort city of Batti, 'The only things that move here are the bowels of the horses.'"<ref name="auto"/>

''Filmink'' said Ann-Margret "stole the show".<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Filmink|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/surviving-cold-streaks-ann-margret/|title=Surviving Cold Streaks: Ann-Margret|date=September 6, 2021|access-date=March 9, 2023}}</ref>

[[John Addison]]'s score was well received. The period costumes by [[Michael Annals]] are extraordinarily flamboyant. [[David Watkin (cinematographer)|David Watkin]]'s cinematography was praised as clever and particularly reflective of the period depicted, demonstrating a "painterly quality" and an artistic use of lighting.

==Awards==
* '''Nominee''' Best Supporting Actress [[Golden Globe]] award (Ann-Margret)
* '''Nominee''' Best Costume Design [[BAFTA]] award ([[Michael Annals]], [[Patrick Wheatley]])

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=0076234|title=Joseph Andrews}}
* {{rotten-tomatoes|joseph_andrews|Joseph Andrews}}

{{Tony Richardson}}

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