Paramount clearly wanted to turn Daniel Defoe’s 1722 novel into a cash-in (…) Director Terence Young’s 1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders stars a miscast Kim Novak, who flounders as Moll Flanders, the woman who plans to sleep her way to the top of 18th-century English society (…) Rarely has sex looked so dull and tedious. — Derek Winnert