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''Joseph Andrews'' is a 1977 British period comedy film directed by Tony Richardson. It is based on the 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'', which was also directed by Tony Richardson. Ann-Margret was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1978 for her performance in the film.〔http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076234/awards〕 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 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."〔Vincent Canby, "Witty 'Joseph Andrews': Misadventures Galore" Apr. 14, 1876 http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C00E6DA1531E632A25757C1A9629C946990D6CF〕 ==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 fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, yet Sir Thomas really seeks relief for his sick foot, 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. On his way back on foot, he 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, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson. Meanwhile, the lady consents to her cousin marrying below their station when learning the fiancée is Joseph's sister, Pamela. The parson barely escapes a wicked gentleman's totally unjust, all but gentle justice after being accused of the attempted rape committed by a squire he actually prevented and comes to learn ever more about a relevant child-theft by gypsies, but meanwhile he, Joseph and Fanny fall prey again to the rapist's utter debauchery...〔IMDB Joseph Andrews Plot Summary, KGF Vissers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076234/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph Andrews (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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