In 18th-century London, Moll Flanders masquerades as a rich widow to land a wealthy nobleman, never dreaming that he’s actually a penniless scoundrel posing to win the presumably rich Moll.

A colorful, early ’70s rendition of life in the taverns, brothels, and surgical theatres of 1820s Scotland, blending dark comedy with bawdy eroticism, seasoning it with the grotesque, then crowning it with a playful theme song by the pop band The Scaffold.